Question

I have used this code

 var dest1 = File.AppendText(Path.Combine(_logFolderPath, "log1.txt"));
   dest1.WriteLine(line.Trim());

to write to a text file log1.txt after that i have to read this text file…

i have declared in a variable… I know this is not possible..but i dont know how

using (var file = File.OpenText(dest1))

How to open that text file and read that file by using

while ((line2 = file.ReadLine()) != null)

Any suggestion??

EDIT:

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["connectionString"].ConnectionString);
            SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter("select codesnippet from edk_custombrsnippet_vw", con);
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            da.Fill(dt);
            string line = dt.Rows[0].ItemArray[0].ToString().Replace("\n", Environment.NewLine).Replace("\r", Environment.NewLine);
            ;

            //MessageBox.Show(line);

            string Filepath2 = TextBox1.Text;
            int counter = 1;
            string line2;

            if (File.Exists(Filepath2) )
            {
                DirectoryInfo Folder = new DirectoryInfo(textboxPath.Text);
                var _logFolderPath = Path.Combine(textboxPath.Text.Trim(), "log");
                if (Folder.Exists)

                    if (!Directory.Exists(_logFolderPath))
                        Directory.CreateDirectory(_logFolderPath);

                string filename = Path.Combine(_logFolderPath, "log1.txt");
                var dest1 = File.AppendText(filename);

                    dest1.WriteLine(line.Trim());

                using (var file = File.OpenText(filename))
                {
                    using (var file2 = File.OpenText(Filepath2))
                    {
                        bool time = false;

                        while ((line2 = file2.ReadLine()) != null)
                        {
                            using (var dest = File.AppendText(Path.Combine(_logFolderPath, "log.txt")))
                            {
                                if (!time)
                                {
                                    dest.WriteLine("");
                                    dest.WriteLine("---------------------" + DateTime.Now + "---------------------");
                                    time = true;
                                }
                                bool patternwritten = false;
                                while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
                                {
                                    if (line.IndexOf(line2, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) != -1)
                                    {
                                        if (!patternwritten)
                                        {
                                            dest.WriteLine("");
                                            dest.WriteLine("Pattern Name : " + line2);
                                            patternwritten = true;
                                        }
                                        dest.WriteLine("LineNo : " + counter.ToString() + " : " + "           " + line.Trim());
                                    }
                                    counter++;
                                }
                                //FilePath.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
                                counter = 1;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }

Answer 1

Store the filename in a variable like so:

string filename = Path.Combine(_logFolderPath, "log1.txt");

Then use it in the following lines:

var dest1 = File.AppendText(filename);
...
using (var file = File.OpenText(filename))

Then the rest should work as expected. In your code above you were trying to pass a StreamWriter to the File.OpenText method which is wrong.