Question

I was able to read a RTF file (Data table) and get this to read to a string as below.

Stream rtftxt = Request.Files[0].InputStream;
int size = Convert.ToInt32(rtftxt.Length);
Byte[] rtf = new Byte[size];
rtftxt.Read(rtf, 0, size);
string FileText=System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8").GetString(rtf);

I Need to either remove Rich text formatting or if possible, save this as a TXT in stream and read this stream again. Any help and suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The WinForms RichTextBox control can be used to convert rich text into plain text programmatically without actually placing the control on a form.

The following code reads rich text from an input stream and writes the resulting plain text to an output stream.

var box = new RichTextBox();
var reader = new StreamReader(input);
box.Rtf = reader.ReadToEnd();
var writer = new StreamWriter(output);
writer.Write(box.Text);
writer.Flush();