BSc CSIT CSC367 : Prem Prasad Shrestha
NET Centric Computing
CSC367
Unit 1: Language Preliminaries
File Handling in C#
Hard Disk RAM
Non-Volatile Memory Volatile Memory
Secondary Storage Primary Storage
C# Program C# Program
Variable Variable
Methods Methods
Functions Functions
etc etc
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File Handling in C#
Example
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string path = "/CSIT_NET/Data.txt";
//Read from the file
string printFile =File.ReadAllText(path);
Console.WriteLine(printFile);
//Write to the file
File.WriteAllText(path,”Text here”);
Console.ReadKey();
}
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File Handling in C#
File Mode
o Create – Create new file every time
o CreateNew – Create new if file is not existed.
o Open – Open the file to write
o OpenorCreate – Open file if exists or Create if not exist.
o Append – Add text every time while running.
o Truncate – Delete file
File Access
o Read
o Write
o ReadWrite
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File Handling in C#
Stream Writer
o StreamWriter class can be used to write text files
o StreamWriter class in C# writes characters to a stream in a specified
encoding,
o Stream.Writer.Write() method is responsible for writing to a stream,
o StreamWriter class inherited from TextWriter class that provides
methods to write an object to a string, write strings to a file
o The StreamWriter class has several constructors and provides us
with many methods,
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File Handling in C#
Stream Reader
o StreamReader class is used to read string from the stream.
o StreamReader reads text files,
o The namespace for it is System.IO namespace
o Mode is in Open, Access in Read or Read/Write
o It inherits TextReader class,
o It provides ReadLine() method to read data from the stream.
o If we want to read whole text file we can use ReadToEnd() method,
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File Handling in C#
DirectoryInfo Class
o Is used to create, delete and move directory
o It provides methods to perform operations related to directory and
subdirectory, it is a sealed class so we cannot inherit it
o C# DirectoryInfo class provides functionality to work with folders
o Declared under System.IO.
o Shares almost all of the same properties as FileInfo class.
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File Handling in C#
DirectoryInfo Class
o Create – used to create the new directory.
o CreateSubdirectory – used to create a subdirectory on the specified
path.
o MoveTo – used to moves DirectoryInfo instance and its
o Delete – used to delete folder or subfolder but by default it delete
empty folder. Set True as argument for delete with sub folder.
o GetDirectories – used to get the sub directories in the given folder
o GetFiles – used to get the files in the specified folder.
Lambda Expression
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