Text File Operations Using VB.NET

 In this article we will learn various text file operations such as opening, creating, reading, writing, copying and deleting a file and how to determine whether a file exists or not.

Dim
 TempFile As System.IO.File
Dim TempRead As System.IO.StreamReader
Dim TempWrite As System.IO.StreamWriter

Info about file existence
 

If
 File.Exists("C:\TempText.txt"Then

    MessageBox.Show("File found")

Else

    MessageBox.Show("File not found")

End If

Create file

TempWrite = File.CreateText(
"C:\TempText.txt")

Open file
 

TempRead = File.OpenText(
"C:\TempText.txt")

Read file

You can also read an entire text file from the current position to the end of the file by using the ReadToEnd method, as shown in the following code :

Dim
 FullFileStr As String

TempRead = File.OpenText("C:\TempText.txt")
 

FullFileStr = TempRead.ReadToEnd()

Write file

TempWrite.WriteLine(
"Hello")

Copy file

Dim
 fileDestinationStr As String = "D:\TempText.txt"
 

If File.Exists("C:\TempText.txt"Then
   

 File.Copy("C:\TempText.txt", fileDestinationStr)
 

End If

Delete file

If
 File.Exists("C:\TempText.txt"Then
  

  File.Delete("C:\TempText.txt")
 

Else
  

  MessageBox.Show("File not found")
 

End If

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