efficient way to find string with streamreader

Question

I get web response and use streamreader to obtain the response as a string

my code is

HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetRespons         


        

Answer 1

Well, personally I would use:

string line;

while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
{
    if (line.Contains(...))
    {
    }
}

Reading the line gives you the data and tells you whether you've reached the end of the stream. I agree with Jeff though - "parsing" HTML by reading it line by line is generally a bad idea. It may be good enough in your specific situation, of course.