Reads the next character from the current 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
Returns
A character read from the current stream.
Remarks
If the BinaryReader.ReadChar method attempts to read a surrogate character in the stream an exception will be raised and the position in the stream will advance. The position is restored to the original location before BinaryReader.ReadChar was called if the stream is seekable; however, if the stream is unseekable, the position will not be corrected. If surrogate characters can be expected in the stream, use the BinaryReader.ReadChars(int) method instead.
Because of data formatting conflicts, using this method with the following encodings is not recommended:
UTF-7
ISO-2022-JP
ISCII
For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I/O Tasks.
Requirements
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0