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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Reading Data Console I/O

Posted by Mohamed Monir
Mohamed Monir
22,362 Points

I write This Code but i stell Get " Did you instatiate a new StreamReader?"

i write the code but i get error i need to know what i must Do

CodeChallenge.cs 
DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
string fileName = Path.Combine(directory.FullName, "secretmessage.txt");
using(var reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(fileName.FullName))
{
}

1 Answer

silvercoder
silvercoder
11,113 Points

Nearly there, try this.

DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
string fileName = Path.Combine(directory.FullName, "secretmessage.txt");

{
    using (var reader = new StreamReader(fileName))  
    Console.SetIn(reader);
}