Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Reading and Writing Text Files

You create text files by instantiating the StreamWriter class, which is a specific stream implementation for writing to text files. The following code, which will be explained, provides an example:

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Dim ts As New StreamWriter("C:\Temporary\OneFile.txt",                           False, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)ts.WriteLine("This is a text file")ts.WriteLine("with multi-line example")ts.Close()

The constructor provides several overloads. The one used in the code receives the file name to be created; a Boolean value indicated whether the text must be appended if the file already exists and how the text is encoded. WriteLine is a method that writes a string and then puts a line terminator ...