What's the best way to write a short[] array to a file in C#?

Question

I have an array of shorts (short[]) that I need to write out to a file. What's the quickest way to do this?

Answer 1

Use the BinaryWriter

    static void WriteShorts(short[] values, string path)
    {
        using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write))
        {
            using (BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs))
            {
                foreach (short value in values)
                {
                    bw.Write(value);
                }
            }
        }
    }

Answer 2

Following up on Jon B's answer, if your file contains any other data, you might want to prefix the data with the count of values.

i.e.:

static void WriteShorts(short[] values, string path)
{
    using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write))
    {
        using (BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs))
        {
            // Write the number of items
            bw.Write(values.Length);

            foreach (short value in values)
            {
                bw.Write(value);
            }
        }
    }
}