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

Posted by Joseph Robertson
Joseph Robertson
12,060 Points

I'm stuck! Help!! Can't figure out what's wrong.

I've tried several ways to fix this, and I have no idea what's wrong with the code. Anyone can tell?

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

if (file.Exists)
{
    using (var reader = new StreamReader(file.FullName))
    {
        Console.SetIn(reader);
        Console.WriteLine(Console.ReadLine());
    }
}

1 Answer

Tosin Peters
Tosin Peters
9,541 Points
Tosin Peters
Tosin Peters
9,541 Points

You are already getting the details you need for the file in fileName. Something like this would work instead

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