Reads the specified number of characters from the current stream, returns the data in a character array, and advances the current position in accordance with the Encoding used and the specific character being read from the stream.
Syntax
Parameters
- count
Returns
A character array containing data read from the underlying stream. This might be less than the number of characters requested if the end of the stream is reached.
Remarks
System.IO.BinaryReader does not restore the file position after an unsuccessful read operation.
When reading from network streams, in some rare cases, the BinaryReader.ReadChars(int) method might read an extra character from the stream if the System.IO.BinaryReader was constructed with Unicode encoding. If this occurs, you can use the BinaryReader.ReadBytes(int) method to read a fixed-length byte array, and then pass that array to the BinaryReader.ReadChars(int) method.
Requirements
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0