.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library

Type Summary

						public class StringReader : TextReader
{
  // Constructors
     public StringReader (string s);

  // Methods
     public override void Close ();
     protected override void Dispose (bool disposing);
     public override int Peek ();
     public override int Read ();
     public override int Read (char[] buffer,
                              int index, int count);
     public override string ReadLine ();
     public override string ReadToEnd ();
}

BG StringReader and StringWriter have been some of the harder classes for people to get their heads around in the IO namespace. They are roughly similar to C++'s strstream. They allow you to read and write to a String using the same API's you'd use to write to any Stream. Hence, the TextReader and TextWriter base classes.