Reads characters from the underlying stream and advances the current position of the stream in accordance with the Encoding used and the specific character being read from the stream.
Syntax
public virtual int Read ()
Returns
The next character from the input stream, or -1 if no characters are currently available.
Remarks
System.IO.BinaryReader does not restore the file position after an unsuccessful read.
For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I/O Tasks.
Requirements
Namespace: System.IO
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0