Why does BinaryWriter prepend gibberish to the start of a stream? How do you avoid it?

Question

I\'m debugging some issues with writing pieces of an object to a file and I\'ve gotten down to the base case of just opening the file and writing \"TEST\" in it. I\'m doing

Answer 1

You can save it as a UTF8 encoded byte array like this:

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BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs);

w.Write(UTF8Encoding.Default.GetBytes("test"));

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