Question

I have this code

FileStream fs = new FileStream("Scores.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs);
        sw.Write("Name: " + name_box.Text + " Time " + label1.Text);
        sw.Close();

which is simple the label1 is assgined to a Timer tick as in the folowing

private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // Format and display the TimeSpan value. 
        TimeSpan ts = stopWatch.Elapsed;
        string elapsedTime = String.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}.{3:00}",
            ts.Hours, ts.Minutes, ts.Seconds,
            ts.Milliseconds / 10);
       label1.Text = elapsedTime;
    }

now when I open the Text File I found the following results

Name: Tony Time 00:00:06.67Text:  Time [System.Windows.Forms.Timer], Interval: 100

which are perfect but what is ( Text: Time [System.Windows.Forms.Timer], Interval: 100)
I don’t want that to appear in the txt

thanx in advance

Answer 1

You are using FileMode.OpenOrCreate in the constructor. This does not erase the previous contents of the file. I suspect that if you delete the file and then try running your program again, you won’t see any of that extra stuff.

I suggest either using FileMode.Create or FileMode.Append. Use the first if you want to overwrite the results, the second if you want to… well, append.