Question Encoding from one encoded format to another

[Anand Mani Tiwari]

Hi,

I have a challange to convert the detected Encoding format of Text file to selected Encoding format. Like if the detected file is in Utf-8 and if user want to convert the encoding to Utf-16 or ANCII or Unicode. It will happen on one button click and the file will convert to the desired output encoding format.

Right Now I am able to detect the encoding but conversion not happening. Please help me out ASAP...

Thanking you for this help.

 

[jmcilhinney]

You simply call File.ReadAllText and specify the current encoding to read the data into a String and then call File.WriteAllText and specify the new encoding to write the String back to the file.

 

[Anand Mani Tiwari]

Thanks for the quick reply, I had did like below mentioned code:

Using sr AsTextReader = NewStreamReader(fs, Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1"))
Using output AsTextWriter = NewStreamWriter(NewFileStream(destPath, FileMode.Create), encodingType)
While (sr.Peek() >= 0)
output.Write(sr.ReadLine())
EndWhile
EndUsing
End Using


But the problem is when Iam opening the Text file in Notepad++ it is not showing the Symbol like 'CR LF' at the end of line. Please help me on this...

Thanking you for this.

 

[JohnH]

output.Write(output.Write(sr.ReadLine())

it is not showing the Symbol like 'CR LF' at the end of line.

ReadLine will return a NewLine terminated line excluding terminators.
WriteLine will append NewLine to the written text.

jmcilhinneys suggestion is a lot easier though, and would be better to do unless your files are really large.

 

[Anand Mani Tiwari]

Thank you, It was really helpful, but when I am converting it any formats of encoding is showing all encoding symbol as CR LF, how I will differentiate them as LF for unicode and all....

Thank you again.

 

[JohnH]

While you can set NewLine terminator for the StreamWriter, doing as suggested eliminates that and preserves current terminators in file.

 

[Anand Mani Tiwari]

I didn't get you properly, will you please elaborate this....

If possible then provide some code .

Thanks.

 

[jmcilhinney]

What's to elaborate? You're trying complicate something that's very simple. Call File.ReadAllText. It returns a String. Call File.WriteAllText and pass that String. That's all there is to it.