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Writing Files | Additional Structures & File Handling
C# Beyond Basics
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C# Beyond Basics

C# Beyond Basics

1. Additional Structures & File Handling
2. Structs & Enumerators
3. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
4. OOP Essentials
5. OOP Principles

Writing Files

For writing text in a file we create a StreamWriter object with the path of the file, similar to how we create a StreamReader object.

Note

The platform currently doesn't support file writing so this can be practiced on a compiler on your PC.

The StreamWriter object offers a WriteLine method which can write text into a file. We will now try to write something to the text.txt file.

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var textFile = new StreamWriter("C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/text.txt"); textFile.WriteLine("This is some new text."); textFile.WriteLine("This is the next line."); textFile.WriteLine("Another line."); textFile.Close();

The above code will overwrite the previous content of the text.txt file and replace it with:

StreamWriter has a second parameter called "append" which takes in a boolean value and is set to false by default. If we set the append parameter to true then the code will not overwrite the older text rather it would append the new text to the end of the file.

For-example, consider the file text.txt has the following text in it:

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text

123
First line Second line Third line

We will use the following code to add a new line to it:

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using System; using System.IO; public class HelloWorld { public static void Main(string[] args) { var textFile = new StreamWriter("C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/text.txt", true); textFile.WriteLine("This is a new line."); textFile.Close(); } }

The file will look like this after running the code:

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text

1234
First line Second line Third line This is a new line.
1. What is the correct way of creating a StreamWriter object for appending text into a file?
2. What method is used to write a line to a text file using the StreamWriter class?
3. Which method is used for closing a file after use?

What is the correct way of creating a StreamWriter object for appending text into a file?

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What method is used to write a line to a text file using the StreamWriter class?

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Which method is used for closing a file after use?

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