Android Question [Solved] TextReader and Encoding

asales · Feb 18, 2019

In this post
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/to-read-txt-file-with-more-fields.102809/#post-644839
Erel says:
"Never use TextReader. Use File.ReadList or File.ReadString."

I use the TextReader because the enconding. See the code:

B4X:

Dim tr As TextReader
tr.Initialize2(Job.GetInputStream,"ISO-8859-1")
parser.Parse2(tr, "Parser")

- Why don't use TextReader?
- How I can change my code (or I don't need in this case)?

Thanks in advance.

Erel · Feb 18, 2019

The correct statement should be: Never use TextReader unless you need to read a file with an encoding other than UTF8.

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