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I need to change a file in memory, and currently I read the file to memory into a byte[] using a filestream and a binaryreader. I was wondering whats the best approach to change that file in memory, convert the byte[] to string, make changes and do an Encoding.GetBytes()? or Read the file first as string using File.ReadAllText() and then Encoding.GetBytes()? or any approach will work without caveats? Any special approaches? I need to replace specific text inside files with additional chars or replacement strings, several 100,000 of files. Reliability is preferred over efficiency. Files are text like HTML, not binary files.
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