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Redirect .NET StreamWriter output to a String variable

I'd like to know if it is possible to redirect StreamWriter output to a variable

Something like

String^ myString;
StreamWriter sw = gcnew StreamWriter([somehow specify myString])
sw->WriteLine("Foo");

then myString will contain Foo. The reason I would like to do this is to reuse a complex function. I should probably refactor it into a String returning function but it still would be a nice hack to know

Solution

  • StreamWriter and StringWriter both extend TextWriter, perhaps you could refactor your method that uses StreamWriter to use TextWriter instead so it could write to either a stream or a string?