MemoryStream to string[]

Question

I read the content of a CSV file from a zip file in memory(the requirment is not to write to disk) into the MemoryStream. and use to following code to get the human readable string

 string  result = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());

However, we would like the result to be a string[] to map each row in the CSV file.

Is there a way to handle this automatically?

Thanks

Answer 1

Firstly, there's no need to call ToArray on the memory stream. Just use a StreamReader, and call ReadLine() repeatedly:

memoryStream.Position = 0; // Rewind!
List<string> rows = new List<string>();
// Are you *sure* you want ASCII?
using (var reader = new StreamReader(memoryStream, Encoding.ASCII))
{
    string line;
    while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
    {
        rows.Add(line);
    }
}