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POHow to get the Encoding from a BASE64STRING
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copied!<p>Below is the code with a description of my problem:</p> <ol> <li><p>I need to find the encoding of this file, but not now!</p> <pre><code>string FilePath = @"C:\01 New.txt"; System.IO.FileStream inFile = new System.IO.FileStream(FilePath, System.IO.FileMode.Open,System.IO.FileAccess.Read); byte[] binaryData = new Byte[inFile.Length]; long bytesRead = inFile.Read(binaryData, 0, (int)inFile.Length); inFile.Close(); string base64String = System.Convert.ToBase64String(binaryData, 0, binaryData.Length);// Converting ToBase64String Console.WriteLine("base64String is " + base64String); </code></pre> <p>Please assume that the above process is done by something else, and it only returns "base64String". Now I need to read it properly.</p></li> <li><p>For that, I need the "ENCODING" of the base64String:</p> <pre><code>byte[] s = Convert.FromBase64String(base64String); switch (GET_ENCODING(base64String)) { case "ASCII": Console.WriteLine("ASCII text is " + Encoding.ASCII.GetString(s).Trim()); break; case "Default": Console.WriteLine("Default text is " + Encoding.Default.GetString(s).Trim()); break; case "UTF7": Console.WriteLine("UTF7 text is " + Encoding.UTF7.GetString(s).Trim()); break; case "UTF8": Console.WriteLine("UTF8 text is " + Encoding.UTF8.GetString(s).Trim()); break; case "BigEndianUnicode": Console.WriteLine("BigEndianUnicode " + Encoding.BigEndianUnicode.GetString(s).Trim()); break; case "UTF32": Console.WriteLine("UTF32 text is " + Encoding.UTF32.GetString(s).Trim()); break; default: break; } </code></pre></li> </ol>

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