StreamReader and seeking

Question

can you use streamreader to read a normal textfile and then in the middle of reading close the streamreader after saving the current position and then open streamreader agai

Answer 1

From MSDN:

StreamReader is designed for character input in a particular encoding, whereas the Stream class is designed for byte input and output. Use StreamReader for reading lines of information from a standard text file.

In most of the examples involving StreamReader, you will see reading line by line using the ReadLine(). The Seek method comes from Stream class which is basically used to read or handle data in bytes.