Can i put binary in stdin? C#

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In C# how can i put binary in STDin? i was hoping the below would work but it doesnt. And it makes sense. So how do i push a byte[] array?

new BinaryWriter(p.StandardInput.FormatProvider);

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '09 at 16:52

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Write directly to the base stream:


new BinaryWriter(p.StandardInput.BaseStream)

answered Aug 16 '09 at 16:52

Alfred Myers

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Or use `p.StandardInput.BaseStream.Write`. – John Saunders Aug 16 '09 at 16:58

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 16 '09 at 12:35

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stdin is just another byte stream, one your program can read from

Stream st=Console.OpenStandardInput ();
StreamReader sr=new StreamReader(st);

etc. In the q. which you refer to, the material coming in from stdin is being piped from the output of another program. To do that part of the process, you use Console.OpenStandardOuput() to get a stream and push the binary out through that.

answered Aug 16 '09 at 12:35

Steve Gilham

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Yes, but if you're dealing with binary, you don't want to use `StreamReader`, which is derived from `TextReader`. – John Saunders Aug 16 '09 at 12:40
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Yes -- should be BinaryReader. – Steve Gilham Aug 16 '09 at 15:28
Well, maybe or maybe not. If you just want to deal with bytes, then dealing with the raw stream is fine. Other things like the `BinaryFormatter` will also be useful - just not a `TextReader`. – John Saunders Aug 16 '09 at 16:23

Can i put binary in stdin? C#

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