Jay,

Why not use the sr.ReadLine() method which returns a string?

There is also a string constructor that accepts a character array:

// from the help file
// Unicode Mathematical operators
char [] charArr1 = {'\u2200','\u2202','\u200F','\u2205'};
String szMathSymbols = new String(charArr1);

>Hi,
>
>Am I missing something simple? I want to convert an array of type char to a string of what is in the char buffer. This is the "long way", iterating through the char array:
>
>

>StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(cFile);
>
>char[] c = null;
>string cNextLine;
>
>while(sr.Peek() > -1)
>{
>    c = new char[80];
>    sr.Read(c, 0, c.Length);
>
>    cNextLine = "";
>
>    for (int i = 0; i < nRecordLength; i++)
>    {
>        cNextLine = cNextLine + c[i];
>    }
>
>    SomeFunctionUsingString(cNextLine);
>}
>sr.Close();
>

>
>Is there an easier way provided by the framework?
>
>Thanks,
>Jay