How to read an incoming tcp stream until a delimiter is found?

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Published on 2010-03-11T20:55:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/11 21:09 UTC
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How do you read an incoming tcp stream until a specific delimiter is found in C#? The only possible solution I have come up with is reading the incoming stream one byte at a time.

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