Why is the StreamWriter not writing?

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I am trying to write a bit of text to a file called reciept.txt. I have included the "System.IO" namespace. When I click the save button it should just write that simple bit of text in the file. When I open the file however, it's just blank. The file already exists.

private void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
          string deskPath = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
          bool fileExists = File.Exists(DesktopBounds + "/reciept.txt");

          using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(deskPath+"reciept.txt"))
          {
              sw.WriteLine("asdasdasd");

          }
      }

Any suggestions why it's not writing even when things look right?

Posted 4-Nov-12 10:38am

FourCrate

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Ahmedwaheed · Answer 1 · 2012-11-04T11:01:00

Solution 1

just fix it like this

C#

string deskPath = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
            bool fileExists = File.Exists(DesktopBounds + "/reciept.txt");


            using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(Path.Combine(deskPath,"reciept.txt")))
            {
                sw.WriteLine("asdasdasd");

            }

Posted 4-Nov-12 11:01am

Ahmedwaheed

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FourCrate 4-Nov-12 17:21pm

Thanks for the input. That didn't solve my problem but I noticed the problem was that the piece of code above was automatically creating a new text file called "reciept" and updating that instead.

FourCrate 4-Nov-12 17:35pm

I am replying this to you as there is a bug and I can't create my own solution :/

I noticed the problem was that the piece of code above was automatically creating another new text file called "reciept" and updating that instead. I thought the file I created manually called "reciept.txt" would be the same as what I am writing to in the code but apparently not.
The code I have was automatically creating a new text file because it didn't exist when I hadn't actually programmed it to create a new file.

Ahmedwaheed 5-Nov-12 12:12pm

do you want to append to the file if it is existed is it right?