null values in a string array

No... It's obvious you can't read doubles directly from a file. Not even strings :) The only type that can be read from a file directly is a byte (or bytes). I've tried to look for some information on how to convert bytes back to a double. Not the Convert.ToDouble() because it can only take a single byte to convert. So you just get the byte's value as a double. And that's not what you wrote into the file. So I searched for information but found nothing usefull. So I sticked with reading strings from the file. And convert it into a double. Because the convertion ignores the dot like in 11.27 the result to a double was 1127. So I divided that number with 100.00 and the correct value showed. Now I wrapped the whole process into one single function. So it's easy to adopt. I hope this helps you with your war against reading the file :) using System; using System.IO; namespace csConsole { class NULL { ///

/// Reads a double array seperated by a space from a file. ///

/// Textfile to read from /// Array of all doubles represented in the file public static double[] DoublesFromFile(string filename) { StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(filename); string text = string.Empty; while( reader.Peek() != -1 ) { text += reader.ReadLine(); } reader.Close(); string[] parts = text.Split(' '); double[] doubles = new double[parts.Length - 1]; for(int i = 0; i < (parts.Length - 1); i++) { doubles[i] = double.Parse( parts[i] ) / 100.00; } return doubles; } #region " Static Main() " static void Main(string[] args) { double[] doubles = NULL.DoublesFromFile( "C:\\test.txt" ); int i = 0; foreach( double d in doubles ) { if( i == 8 ) { Console.Write( "\n" ); i = 0; } Console.Write( d + " "); i++; } Console.Read(); } #endregion } }