Write to file cut off

Question

My goal is to take a file of sentences, apply some basic filtering, and output the remaining sentences to a file and the terminal. I'm using the Hunspell library.

Here's how I get sentences from the file:

    public static string[] sentencesFromFile_old(string path)
    {
        string s = "";
        using (StreamReader rdr = File.OpenText(path))
        {
            s = rdr.ReadToEnd();
        }
        s = s.Replace(Environment.NewLine, " ");
        s = Regex.Replace(s, @"\s+", " ");
        s = Regex.Replace(s, @"\s*?(?:\(.*?\)|\[.*?\]|\{.*?\})", String.Empty);
        string[] sentences = Regex.Split(s, @"(?<=\. |[!?]+ )");
        return sentences;
    }

Here's the code that writes to file:

        List<string> sentences = new List<string>(Checker.sentencesFromFile_old(path));
        StreamWriter w = new StreamWriter(outFile);
        foreach(string x in xs)
            if(Checker.check(x, speller))
            {
                w.WriteLine("[{0}]", x);
                Console.WriteLine("[{0}]", x);
            }

Here's the checker:

    public static bool check(string s, NHunspell.Hunspell speller)
    {
        char[] punctuation = {',', ':', ';', ' ', '.'};
        bool upper = false;
        // Check the string length.
        if(s.Length <= 50 || s.Length > 250)
            return false;
        // Check if the string contains only allowed punctuation and letters.
        // Also disallow words with multiple consecutive caps.
        for(int i = 0; i < s.Length; ++i)
        {
            if(punctuation.Contains(s[i]))
                continue;
            if(Char.IsUpper(s[i]))
            {
                if(upper)
                    return false;
                upper = true;
            }
            else if(Char.IsLower(s[i]))
            {
                upper = false;
            }
            else return false;
        }
        // Spellcheck each word.
        string[] words = s.Split(' ');
        foreach(string word in words)
            if(!speller.Spell(word))
                return false;
        return true;
    }

The sentences are printed on the terminal just fine, but the text file cuts off mid-sentence at 2015 characters. What's up with that?

EDIT: When I remove some parts of the check method, the file is cut off at various lengths somewhere around either 2000 or 4000. Removing the spellcheck eliminates the cutoff entirely.

Answer 1

You need to flush the stream before closing it.

w.Flush();
w.Close();

The using statement (which you should also use) will Close the stream automatically, but it will not flush it.

using( var w = new StreamWriter(...) )
{
  // Do stuff
  w.Flush();
}