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Manjoora
Manjoora

Reputation: 45

StreamReader output

In C# why output of this 2 code is different from each other ?

StreamReader test = new StreamReader(@"C:\a.txt");

while (test.ReadLine() != null)
{
    Console.WriteLine(test.ReadLine());
}

And this code :

StreamReader test = new StreamReader(@"C:\a.txt");

string line = "";

while ((line = test.ReadLine()) != null)
{
    Console.WriteLine(line);
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1225

Answers (3)

VCody
VCody

Reputation: 516

Both the code works same with little magic ,becuase of the reason:

test.ReadLine(): return: The next line from the input stream, or null if the end of the input stream is reached.

      // So,Let's say your a.txt contain the following cases:
       case 1:"Hello World"
       while (test.ReadLine() != null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("HI" + test.ReadLine());
        }

   // since,we have only one line ,so next line is null and finally it reached the EOD.

    case 2:"Hello World"
   "I am a coder"
       while (test.ReadLine() != null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("HI" + test.ReadLine());
        }

  // since,we have  two line so ,next line is "I am a coder".
 //It returns:Hi I am a coder.


// And in the below code we are reading and assigning to string variable

        StreamReader test1 = new StreamReader(@"D:\a.txt");

        string line = "";

        while ((line = test1.ReadLine()) != null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(line);
        }

Upvotes: 0

Tomas Nilsson
Tomas Nilsson

Reputation: 278

In your first example, use this code instead:

while(!test.EndOfStream)
{
   Console.WriteLine(test.ReadLine());
}

Upvotes: 1

Qwertiy
Qwertiy

Reputation: 21400

Each time you call test.ReadLine() you read one new line, so the first code skippes a half of them.

Upvotes: 12

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