Hi Doru The last time I used FS that was the way to do it. Maybe what you want could be accomplished by adding convenience methods to FSReadStream like #stringContents or something. Anyway, I agree with Norbert that a ByteArray is really the data structure that you should expect to get from a file.
Cheers, Max On 17.11.2011, at 22:01, Tudor Girba wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Filesystem, and I would like to get a read stream that provides a > string instead of bytes. > > If I do "aReference readStream", I get a FSReadStream which is a byte stream. > > To get to the string, I now do the ugly: "aReference readStream contents > asString" > > Is there a cleverer way? > > Cheers, > Doru > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "What we can governs what we wish." > > > >