The answers did help, but I think a full implementation of this will help a lot of people.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
namespace Dom
{
class Dom
{
public static string make_Sting_From_Dom(string reportname)
{
try
{
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
// Retrieve resource as a stream
Stream data = client.OpenRead(new Uri(reportname.Trim()));
// Retrieve the text
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(data);
string htmlContent = reader.ReadToEnd();
string mtch = "TILDE";
bool b = htmlContent.Contains(mtch);
if (b)
{
int index = htmlContent.IndexOf(mtch);
if (index >= 0)
Console.WriteLine("'{0} begins at character position {1}",
mtch, index + 1);
}
// Cleanup
data.Close();
reader.Close();
return htmlContent;
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
make_Sting_From_Dom("https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/iso_8859-1.txt");
}
}
}