illustrates reading and writing text data
/* Mastering Visual C# .NET by Jason Price, Mike Gunderloy Publisher: Sybex; ISBN: 0782129110 */ /* Example15_16.cs illustrates reading and writing text data */ using System; using System.IO; public class Example15_16 { public static void Main() { // create a new file to work with FileStream outStream = File.Create("c:\\TextTest.txt"); // use a StreamWriter to write data to the file StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(outStream); // write some text to the file sw.WriteLine("This is a test of the StreamWriter class"); // flush and close sw.Flush(); sw.Close(); // now open the file for reading StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("c:\\TextTest.txt"); // read the first line of the file into a buffer and display it string FirstLine; FirstLine = sr.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine(FirstLine); // clean up sr.Close(); } }