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thatOneGuy
thatOneGuy

Reputation: 19

VB.NET: Using StreamWriter to write one line at a time

Yeah, I've been trying to wrap my head around this but, I want to use a for loop to allow StreamWriter to write one line at a time; this is what i've come up with so far:

Imports System.IO
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO
Module writeOneLineAtATime
    Sub Main()

    Dim fileWriter As StreamWriter
    Dim lineOfCode As String

    Dim fileName, filePath As String

    'Get that file location, dog.
    fileName = "someonewashere.txt"
    filePath = "Data\"

    Debug.Print("File location: " + filePath + fileName)

    fileWriter = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter(filePath + fileName, True)


    Do
        fileWriter.WriteLine("2butt")
        fileWriter.Close()
    Loop


    Console.ReadLine()

End Sub
End Module

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2090

Answers (1)

Matt Wilko
Matt Wilko

Reputation: 27342

There is an easy way to do this which is as follows:

Dim fullyQualifiedPath = Path.Combine(filePath, fileName)

Using sw As New StreamWriter(fullyQualifiedPath)
    sw.WriteLine("Line1")
    sw.WriteLine("Line2)
    ' etc.
End Using

Wrapping the code in a Using block means that you don't have to Close or Dispose of it when you are done as that is all taken care of.

Also using Path.Combine is safer than concatenating the path and file yourself, but anytime you are concatenating strings you should use & instead of +.

Upvotes: 3

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