TextWriter.Write Method (String) (System.IO)

Write Method (String)

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.NET Framework Class Library

TextWriter..::.Write Method (String)

Writes a string to the text stream.

Namespace: System.IO
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public Overridable Sub Write ( _
    value As String _
)

Visual Basic (Usage)

Dim instance As TextWriter
Dim value As String

instance.Write(value)

public virtual void Write(
    string value
)

Visual C++

public:
virtual void Write(
    String^ value
)

JScript

public function Write(
    value : String
)

Parameters

value: Type: System..::.String
The string to write.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ObjectDisposedException	The TextWriter is closed.
IOException	An I/O error occurs.

Remarks

This version of Write is equivalent to Write .

This method does not search the specified String for individual newline characters (hexadecimal 0x000a) and replace them with NewLine.

If value is nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), nothing is written to the text stream.

For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I/O Tasks.

Examples

This code example is part of a larger example provided for the TextWriter class.

Visual Basic

Shared Sub WriteText(aTextWriter As TextWriter)
    aTextWriter.Write("Invalid file path characters are: ")
    aTextWriter.Write(Path.InvalidPathChars)
    aTextWriter.Write("."C)
End Sub

static void WriteText(TextWriter textWriter)
{
    textWriter.Write("Invalid file path characters are: ");
    textWriter.Write(Path.InvalidPathChars);
    textWriter.Write('.');
}

Visual C++

void WriteText( TextWriter^ textWriter )
{
   textWriter->Write(  "Invalid file path characters are: " );
   textWriter->Write( Path::InvalidPathChars );
   textWriter->Write( Char::Parse( "." ) );
}

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Xbox 360, Zune

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0

Reference

Other Resources

File and Stream I/O

How to: Read Text from a File

How to: Write Text to a File