Question

I’m using the textwriter to write data to a text file but if the line exceeds 1024 characters a line break is inserted and this is a problem for me. Any suggestions on how to work round this or increase the character limit?

textWriter.WriteLine(strOutput);

Many thanks

Answer 1

I wrote a sample app that writes and read a 1025 character string. The size never changes. Although if I opened it with notepad.exe (Windows) I can see the extra character in the second line. These seems like a notepad limitation. Here is my sample code

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        using (TextWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter("lineLimit.txt")) {
            String s=String.Empty;
            for(int i=0;i<1025;i++){
                s+= i.ToString().Substring(0,1);
            }
            streamWriter.Write(s);
            streamWriter.Close();
        }
        using (TextReader streamReader = new StreamReader("lineLimit.txt"))
        {
            String s = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
            streamReader.Close();
            Console.Out.Write(s.Length);
        }
    }