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How to: Open and Append to a Log File |
03/30/2017 |
.net |
dotnet-standard |
article |
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74423362-1721-49cb-aa0a-e04005f72a06 |
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mairaw |
mairaw |
wpickett |
How to: Open and Append to a Log File
xref:System.IO.StreamWriter and xref:System.IO.StreamReader write characters to and read characters from streams. The following code example opens the log.txt file for input, or creates the file if it does not already exist, and appends information to the end of the file. The contents of the file are then written to standard output for display. As an alternative to this example, the information could be stored as a single string or string array, and the xref:System.IO.File.WriteAllText%2A or xref:System.IO.File.WriteAllLines%2A method could be used to achieve the same functionality.
[!NOTE] Visual Basic users may choose to use the methods and properties provided by the xref:Microsoft.VisualBasic.Logging.Log class or xref:Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem class for creating or writing to log files.
Example
[!code-csharpConceptual.BasicIO.TextFiles#2] [!code-vbConceptual.BasicIO.TextFiles#2]
See Also
xref:System.IO.StreamWriter
xref:System.IO.StreamReader
xref:System.IO.File.AppendText%2A?displayProperty=nameWithType
xref:System.IO.File.OpenText%2A?displayProperty=nameWithType
xref:System.IO.StreamReader.ReadLine%2A?displayProperty=nameWithType
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