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C# -- Write to a text file
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using System; | |
using System.Collections.Generic; | |
using System.Text; | |
using System.IO; | |
namespace WriteTextFile | |
{ | |
class WriteText | |
{ | |
static void Main(string[] args) | |
{ | |
//- Location of the Text file | |
string fileName = @"c:\temp\txt_test.TXT"; | |
string targetFile = @"c:\temp\txt_test2.TXT"; | |
//- Set the line counter | |
int lineNumber = 0; | |
//- Open the target text file | |
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(targetFile); | |
//- Open the source text file and read thru it | |
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fileName)) | |
{ | |
//- Initialize name variables | |
string aName = ""; | |
string sName = ""; | |
string alName = ""; | |
string line; //- Holds the entire line | |
//- Cycle thru the text file 1 line at a time pulling | |
//- substrings into the variables initialized above | |
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null) | |
{ | |
lineNumber++; | |
//- Pulling substrings. If there is a problem | |
//- with the start index and/or the length values | |
//- an exception is thrown | |
try | |
{ | |
aName = line.Substring(0, 21).Trim(); | |
sName = line.Substring(22, 25).Trim(); | |
alName = line.Substring(47, 17).Trim(); | |
} | |
catch (Exception ex) | |
{ | |
Console.Write(ex.ToString()); | |
} | |
//- Write the data to a new text file as delimited | |
sw.WriteLine(aName + "~" + sName + "~" + alName); | |
} | |
//- Close both the StreamReader and StreamWriter | |
sr.Close(); | |
sw.Close(); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
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