Parsing and replacing special characters from file

Question

I have the following text in a file...

blah blah ñ blah

Notice the ñ symbol.

I'm reading this with StreamReader.ReadLine and then trying a string.Replace to replace the special character.

For some reason this isn't working, and it seems to be something to do with the StreamReader. When I inspect the string in the debugger after reading the line, I get that box shape that text editors display when they can't render a character.

Trying similar directly in code works fine...

int test = "helloñworld".IndexOf('ñ');

so I figure it must be the StreamReader.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Create the StreamReader with the correct encoding of your text file using either the StreamReader(Stream, Encoding) constructor or StreamReader(String, Encoding). Common encodings nowadays are Latin 1 or UTF-8.

Answer 2

Hi, Set the correct encoding in overloaded Streamreader constructor.

Hope this helps, Ilya