C# Tutorial: Writing Text Files

[amrosama]

ohh right sorry dude

[Xav]

He he lol it's alright. It would be a good idea to call Dispose() after you call Close(), just to be on the safe side.

[PlayaSkater]

Hey, Xav, let's say I wanted the console to pop up and I would enter the text myself to be written to the text file. Here's the code I have, but it doesn't seem to be working. The console leaves immediately:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

public class writetext
{
    static void Main()
    {
        //Ask for text to write to buffer
        Console.WriteLine("What would you like to write to text file?  ");
        string buffer = Console.ReadLine();
       

        //Write buffer to textfile
        string path = @"C:/Users/MyName/Documents/C# file.txt";
        StreamWriter txtwrite = new StreamWriter(path);
        txtwrite.WriteLine(buffer);
        txtwrite.Close();
    }
}

[Xav]

What do you mean by "leaves immediately"? Where does it go? Is the file still written?

[amrosama]

Originally Posted by PlayaSkater

The console leaves immediately

same here and nothing is writen to the text file, but the same code works on a windows application

[Xav]

I don't understand. Where does it leave, and what's the problem?

[PlayaSkater]

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. What I meant was that console doesn't stay up so that I can enter the text in. But I got it to work now. Small overlooked error:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

public class writetext
{
    static void Main()
    {
        //Ask for text to write to buffer
        Console.WriteLine("What would you like to write to text file?  ");
        Console.Read();
        string buffer = Console.ReadLine();
       

        //Write buffer to textfile
        string path = @"C:/Users/MyName/Documents/C# file.txt";
        StreamWriter txtwrite = new StreamWriter(path);
        txtwrite.WriteLine(buffer);
        txtwrite.Close();
        txtwrite.Dispose();
    }
}

[PlayaSkater]

There is a new problem now. The text writes fine to the .txt file, but it cuts off the first letter. Don't ask me why, but do you have an idea of what the problem could be?

[Xav]

It's that new line - Console.Read() reads a single character from the input. Therefore, when you type, the first letter goes to the Console.Read() bit, and the rest goes to the Console.ReadLine(), which is put in the buffer. Therefore, try this instead:

string buffer = Console.Read().ToString() + Console.ReadLine();

[squire6677]

thnx i need that