Question

I have this code, the idea is to read from a file and the delete the file.

                StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path);

                s = sr.ReadLine();
                if ((s != null))
                {
                 sr.ReadLine();
                  do
                   {
                   // I start to read and get the characters

                   }while (!(sr.EndOfStream));
                 }
                 sr.close();

and then after close the streamReader,
I try to delete the file but I can’t:

“The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process”

What can I do?

Answer 1

Try deleting after enclosing your code in a using statement as follows:

using(  StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path) ) 
{ 
    ...
}

If that does not work either, then some other process has locked your file.