Question

i have written the following code to append the data with existing data as it is but my code overwrite this

what should i do the changes to code append data.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    fname = Request.Form["Text1"];
    lname = Request.Form["Text2"];
    ph = Request.Form["Text3"];
    Empcode = Request.Form["Text4"];

    string filePath = @"E:Employee.txt";
    if (File.Exists(filePath))
    {
        //StreamWriter SW;
        //SW = File.CreateText(filePath);
        //SW.Write(text);
        //SW.Close();
        FileStream aFile = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(aFile);
        sw.WriteLine(Empcode);
        sw.WriteLine(fname);
        sw.WriteLine(lname);
        sw.WriteLine(ph);
        sw.WriteLine("**********************************************************************");

        sw.Close();
        aFile.Close();
    }
    else
    {
        //sw.Write(text);
        //sw.Flush();
        //sw.Close();
        //StreamWriter SW;
        //SW = File.AppendText(filePath);
        //SW.WriteLine(text);
        //SW.Close();

        FileStream aFile = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write);
        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(aFile);

        sw.WriteLine(Empcode);
        sw.WriteLine(fname);
        sw.WriteLine(lname);
        sw.WriteLine(ph);
        sw.WriteLine("**********************************************************************");

        sw.Close();
        aFile.Close();
        //System.IO.File.WriteAllText(filePath, text);
    }
    Response.Write("Employee Add Successfully.........");
}

Answer 1

The doc for FileMode.Append says:

Opens the file if it exists and seeks to the end of the file, or creates a new file. This operation requires FileIOPermissionAccess.Append permission. FileMode.Append can be used only in conjunction with FileAccess.Write. Trying to seek to a position before the end of the file throws an IOException exception, and any attempt to read fails and throws an NotSupportedException exception.

So the if statement is no longer need because FileMode.Append automatically creates the file if it doesn’t exist.

The complete solution would therefore be:

using (FileStream aFile = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write))
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(aFile)) {
    sw.WriteLine(Empcode);
    sw.WriteLine(fname);
    sw.WriteLine(lname);
    sw.WriteLine(ph);
    sw.WriteLine("**********************************************************************");
}

Hint: use using because it automatically closes the resources, also when an exception occurs.