What is the shortest way to get the string content of a HttpPostedFile in C#

Question

I have an HttpPostedFile object and just need to extract the content of the posted file.

I found this link but that's a very long process to just obtain a string with the content.

Is there any shorter way? (Preferably, a one line instruction.)

+1, especially for following up with the actual problem/ solution. — Alexei Levenkov, Apr 27 '12 at 15:44

score 45 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 27 '12 at 04:13

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var str = new StreamReader(postedFile.InputStream).ReadToEnd();

edited Apr 27 '12 at 04:13

Alexei Levenkov

answered Apr 27 '12 at 03:49

Leniel Maccaferri

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Thanks, that worked flawless. I was trying that before making the question but I was getting an empty string so wasn't sure that was the correct way.The problem was that I needed to set the position of the reader back to 0 (`postedFile.InputStream.Position = 0`) as this was the second time on the code reading the content. Thanks again @LenielMacaferi and @AlexeiLevenkov – yorch Apr 27 '12 at 15:05

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