Binary file IO

[Agoston Bejo]

Hi,
What I would like to do is load a file's contents from a file on the server
and put the contents

into a record in a database. For this I need to load the contents in binary
format into a

variable. Anywhere I looked, I've only found text I/O in ASP.
(FileSystemObject and TextStream).
How can I load any kinds of file into a byte array? Or is it enough to load
it as a text stream

and then treat the loaded string as a byte array?

Thx,
Gus

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

Are these plain text files? Have you considered just using
FileSystemObject's ReadAll() method and just inserting the text as, well,
text?

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"Agoston Bejo" <gusz1@freemail.hu> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> What I would like to do is load a file's contents from a file on the
> server
> and put the contents
>
> into a record in a database. For this I need to load the contents in
> binary
> format into a
>
> variable. Anywhere I looked, I've only found text I/O in ASP.
> (FileSystemObject and TextStream).
> How can I load any kinds of file into a byte array? Or is it enough to
> load
> it as a text stream
>
> and then treat the loaded string as a byte array?
>
> Thx,
> Gus
>
>

[Agoston Bejo]

May be any type of files.
Right now I'm trying just that (handling binary data as text), but it would
be good to know for sure that this won't break for a jpg, for example.

Gus

"Aaron [SQL Server MVP]" <ten.xoc@dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
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> Are these plain text files? Have you considered just using
> FileSystemObject's ReadAll() method and just inserting the text as, well,
> text?
>
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> "Agoston Bejo" <gusz1@freemail.hu> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> > What I would like to do is load a file's contents from a file on the
> > server
> > and put the contents
> >
> > into a record in a database. For this I need to load the contents in
> > binary
> > format into a
> >
> > variable. Anywhere I looked, I've only found text I/O in ASP.
> > (FileSystemObject and TextStream).
> > How can I load any kinds of file into a byte array? Or is it enough to
> > load
> > it as a text stream
> >
> > and then treat the loaded string as a byte array?
> >
> > Thx,
> > Gus
> >
> >

>
>

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

> May be any type of files.

> Right now I'm trying just that (handling binary data as text), but it

would

> be good to know for sure that this won't break for a jpg, for example.

You can do it, but there are several reasons you shouldn't, IMHO.
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[Antonin Foller]

See [url]http://www.pstruh.cz/tips/detpg_read-write-binary-files.htm[/url]
Antonin
"Agoston Bejo" <gusz1@freemail.hu> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> What I would like to do is load a file's contents from a file on the

server

> and put the contents
>
> into a record in a database. For this I need to load the contents in

binary

> format into a
>
> variable. Anywhere I looked, I've only found text I/O in ASP.
> (FileSystemObject and TextStream).
> How can I load any kinds of file into a byte array? Or is it enough to

load

> it as a text stream
>
> and then treat the loaded string as a byte array?
>
> Thx,
> Gus
>
>