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    copied!<p>I have the following code:</p> <pre><code>using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader( File.Open(FILE_PATH, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))) { int pos = 0; int length = (int) br.BaseStream.Length; while (pos &lt; length) { b[pos] = br.ReadByte(); pos++; } pos = 0; while (pos &lt; length) { Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(b[pos])); pos++; } } </code></pre> <p>The FILE_PATH is a const string that contains the path to the binary file being read. The binary file is a mixture of integers and characters. The integers are 1 bytes each and each character is written to the file as 2 bytes.</p> <p>For example, the file has the following data :</p> <p>1HELLO HOW ARE YOU45YOU ARE LOOKING GREAT //and so on</p> <p>Please note: Each integer is associated with the string of characters following it. So 1 is associated with "HELLO HOW ARE YOU" and 45 with "YOU ARE LOOKING GREAT" and so on.</p> <p>Now the binary is written (I do not know why but I have to live with this) such that '1' will take only 1 byte while 'H' (and other characters) take 2 bytes each.</p> <p>So here is what the file actually contains:</p> <p>0100480045..and so on Heres the breakdown:</p> <p>01 is the first byte for the integer 1 0048 are the 2 bytes for 'H' (H is 48 in Hex) 0045 are the 2 bytes for 'E' (E = 0x45)</p> <p>and so on.. I want my Console to print human readable format out of this file: That I want it to print "1 HELLO HOW ARE YOU" and then "45 YOU ARE LOOKING GREAT" and so on...</p> <p>Is what I am doing correct? Is there an easier/efficient way? My line Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(b[pos])); does nothing but prints the integer value and not the actual character I want. It is OK for integers in the file but then how do I read out characters?</p> <p>Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks</p>
 

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