How do I write data to a text file in C#?

Question

I can't figure out how to use FileStream to write data to a text file...

Answer 1

Assuming you have the data already:

string path = @"C:\temp\file"; // path to file using (FileStream fs = File.Create(path))  {         // writing data in string         string dataasstring = "data"; //your data         byte[] info = new UTF8Encoding(true).GetBytes(dataasstring);         fs.Write(info, 0, info.Length);          // writing data in bytes already         byte[] data = new byte[] { 0x0 };         fs.Write(data, 0, data.Length); } 

(taken from msdn docs and modified)

Answer 2

The documentation for FileStream gives an excellent example. In short you create a filestream object, and use the Encoding.UTF8 object (or the encoding you want to use) to convert your plaintext to bytes, in which you can use your filestream.write method. But it would be easier to just use the File class, and File.Append* methods.

EDIT: Example

   File.AppendAllText("/path/to/file", "content here");