Saving file in .txt format (Notepad)

Question

I was wondering if you can help me out with this. I have a DataGridView with a couple of books saved on it. When I click on a book, the book's story loads in a RichTextBox. When I change that text and want to save it, I want to save the content in a .txt file. How can I go about it?

I have included code for you to see what I want to do.

string FileLine = "";
StreamWriter OutputFile;
foreach (Book book in myBookList)
{
    //Book Book = new Book();
    Book nBook = myBookList[dgv.CurrentCell.RowIndex];
    //PROBLEM IS HERE
    OutputFile = new StreamWriter(nBook.TxtFileName);
    //-------------------------------------------------------------
    //I want it to be something like this:  {nBook.TxtFileName}.txt
    //-------------------------------------------------------------
    //Code to write data to file
    OutputFile.WriteLine(FileLine);
    OutputFile.Close();
}

Thanks :)

See here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7306214/append-lines-to-a-file-using-a-streamwriter — Katie Kilian, Oct 10 '14 at 15:07
Hmm, I had interpreted this question as asking how to do the writing to the file, as opposed to how to get the filename to have ".txt" at the end. @JBTGE, which are you having problems with? — Katie Kilian, Oct 10 '14 at 15:09
Thank you @Sergey Malyutin. That did the trick. I want to save the book's topic in the DataGridView as the file's name I am saving but could not get it to be of .txt type. Thank you! :) — JBTGE, Oct 10 '14 at 15:16
Out of scope: please consider using `using`-statement or `try-finally` to make the code "exception safe" (dispose an instance of `StreamWriter`). — Sergey Vyacheslavovich Brunov, Oct 10 '14 at 21:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '14 at 15:13

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Does this work? I hope so.

OutputFile = new StreamWriter(string.format("{0}.txt", nBook.TxtFilename));

answered Oct 10 '14 at 15:13

Won Hyoung Lee

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Yes and I also found that the following is working: OutputFile = new StreamWriter(nBook.TxtFileName+".txt"); – JBTGE Oct 10 '14 at 15:20

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 10 '14 at 15:12

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You have to declare it on your StreamWriter constructor, in your case:

OutputFile = new StreamWriter(nBook.TxtFileName + ".txt");

edited Oct 10 '14 at 15:12

Katie Kilian

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answered Oct 10 '14 at 15:08

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@CaptainFindus It doesn't seem that the formatting is right with that, I suggest: `OutputFile = new StreamWriter(nBook.TxtFileName + ".txt");` – Wizard Oct 10 '14 at 15:13

Saving file in .txt format (Notepad)

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