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();

  }

}

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