Question

I’d like to know if it is possible to redirect StreamWriter output to a variable

Something like

String^ myString; StreamWriter sw = gcnew StreamWriter([somehow specify myString]) sw->WriteLine('Foo'); 

then myString will contain Foo. The reason I would like to do this is to reuse a complex function. I should probably refactor it into a String returning function but it still would be a nice hack to know

Answer 1

StreamWriter and StringWriter both extend TextWriter, perhaps you could refactor your method that uses StreamWriter to use TextWriter instead so it could write to either a stream or a string?