Open file in C#

Murzo · 23 Mar 2010 at 20:40

Hey Guys,

I'm wondering how to open an XCR file (Basically it is an XML file) as a txt file in c# so I can do a find and replace on "&" to &. Can anyone help? I have did some research on google but it only seems to be example of opening an txt file.

I know to use something like the following:

System.IO.File("file path")??

Appreciate any help!

Murzo

NathanE · 23 Mar 2010 at 20:42

File.ReadAllText()

What you're doing is very hacky though and liable to introduce errors into the XML.

E.g. what if the file already uses & ? Your simple string replacer is going to turn that into &amp;

GeX · 23 Mar 2010 at 20:43

an xml file is a txt file, open it and treat it as one. can't see why it won't work - it's just not a good way of doing things.

for xml specific, http://www.functionx.com/csharp2/xml/Lesson01d.htm ?

_TubbZ_ · 23 Mar 2010 at 21:42

NathanE said:
E.g. what if the file already uses & ? Your simple string replacer is going to turn that into &ampamp;

ignore &'s followed by amp; ?

or you could be silly and convert any & into & then back again...

NathanE · 23 Mar 2010 at 23:05

_TubbZ_ said:
ignore &'s followed by amp; ?

or you could be silly and convert any & into & then back again...

That's just a hack upon a hack. It gets you nowhere.

Murzo · 23 Mar 2010 at 23:14

I have a program that I'm trying to modify which basically when an "&" is the description field it throws an error, take out the & and it works perfect. I know its got something to do with the XML file. So I need to go throught that file and change & to & according to my colleague in work, so that it will allow for the use of &.

Murzo · 23 Mar 2010 at 23:32

Managed to get a solution. Thanks for the help.

Amleto · 25 Mar 2010 at 21:59

so the problem is in the saving to the file. you should have been looking at fixing the saving of (non-compliant ?) xml files, rather than fixing the side-effects.