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hex editor formatting

Boco

I'm working on a hex editor in c#, and I've got it reading in a file and showing it in hex as intended, but it is quite slow, and does not format properly (The first line always has an extra pair of hex characters). I'd like to code it to read in only the portion of the file that is shown on screen, but I haven't got the slightest idea how to code that. The code that reads files is at bitfridge.com/hex.cs Couldn't post it here because there is no way to format text here.

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Sam Hobbs17y ago
Use the BinaryReader Class. Use BinaryReader.BaseStream Property to get the underlying stream so you can use the Stream.Position Property to set the position within the file. Use BinaryReader.ReadBytes to read the bytes in the file.