Peek() hangs

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I’m trying to do something very simple but it’s not working. I have a small text file on the SD card that I read and print but the code hangs in the peek function when the end of file is reached. Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Should I be doing this some other way?

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Ports;
using System.Text;

using Microsoft.SPOT;
using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware;
using Microsoft.SPOT.IO;

using GHIElectronics.NETMF.FEZ;
using GHIElectronics.NETMF.IO;
using GHIElectronics.NETMF.System;
using GHIElectronics.NETMF.Hardware;

namespace FPII_StreamReader
{
    public class Program
    {

        public static void Main()
        {
            const string path = @ "\SD\weather.txt";
            PersistentStorage sdPS;
            
            // *** Turn off garbage collection output ***
            Debug.EnableGCMessages(false);
            

            // Blink board LED

            bool ledState = false;

            OutputPort led = new OutputPort((Cpu.Pin)FEZ_Pin.Digital.LED, ledState);

            bool sdExists = PersistentStorage.DetectSDCard();

            if (sdExists)
            {
                // Create a new storage device
                sdPS = new PersistentStorage("SD");

                // Mount the file system
                sdPS.MountFileSystem();

                if (File.Exists(path))
                {
                    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path))
                    {
                        while (sr.Peek() >= 0)
                        {
                            Debug.Print(sr.ReadLine());
                        }
                    }

                }

                sdPS.UnmountFileSystem();
                sdPS.Dispose();
            }              

            while (true)
            {
                // Sleep for 500 milliseconds
                Thread.Sleep(500);

                // toggle LED state
                ledState = !ledState;
                led.Write(ledState);
            }
        }

    }
}
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Sorry I don’t understand. Are you suggesting there’s something I could place in the while statement other than sr.peek()>0?

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Yes that works. Thank you.

I’m not sure it’s useful as it turns out.

I changed the peek line to

while (!sr.EndOfStream)

and get some strange behavior. If I read a record before getting to the while statement everything works fine.

If I don’t read a record first I get an exception but the debugger can’t tell me where. I assumed it was in the EndOfStream function but if I set a breakpoint anywhere in the program I no longer get an exception but EndOfStream is true so no records are read.

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File is a simple text file with each line ending in \r\n. I am able to read it fine if I read a single record (i.e. string ss=sr.ReadLine(); ) before entering the while loop. Otherwise an exception is raised unless I stop the code using the debugger and then continue.

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Exception System.IO.IOException - CLR_E_FILE_IO (4)

#### Message: 
#### Microsoft.SPOT.IO.VolumeInfo::.ctor [IP: 0000] ####
#### Microsoft.SPOT.IO.RemovableMedia::MessageHandler [IP: 0022] ####

A first chance exception of type ‘System.IO.IOException’ occurred in Microsoft.SPOT.IO.dll
An unhandled exception of type ‘System.IO.IOException’ occurred in Microsoft.SPOT.IO.dll

If I set a breakpoint on the line “if (File.Exists(path))” or anywhere after it and simply continue from that point the exception doesn’t occur.

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Well that did get rid of the exception. That’s good to know. Thanks again.