To cast or not to cast

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Fixed in build 205

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<ronnie@freenet.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I have some code that looks a bit like:
>

private byte ReadSByte(TextReader r)
{
string byteString = "" + (char)r.Read() + (char)r.Read();
byte b = Convert.ToByte(byteString, 16);
return b;
}

>

so (maybe cheeky or nasty but that is irrelevant) there is some string
concatenation going on there and the idea is that I am reading in 2
characters of hex and turning them into a byte...

>

Now TextReader.Read() returns an int. Without the cast one gets the ascii
values appended to each other, the string 'byteString' ends up as
something like "425C" and doesn't convert to a byte too well. With the
casts everything is hunky-dory.

>

So far everything is ok....

>

The problem is that Resharper marks the cast as redundant. I agree that
there are flaws to my code there (like I should check for a -1 etc.) but
the point here is that even so the cast is definately NOT redundant! I am
forcing a bit-wise narrowing conversion from int to char instead of a
'ToString()'.

>

Ronnie

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