Modify external text file

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Hallo, I have desktop application when I use my text file where i randomly pick some words. Each word is on single line. But I want to edit possibility, that user can load his own words. But when i load it, I need to modify his file same like me. User has write in file for example: "word;word2;word3 or word word2 word3", he has words on same line separated by semicolon or space and I need to split word by enter to be on sigle line. I had tried something like replace ";" by "\r\n" or something like this.

Posted 15-Mar-15 0:35am

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BillWoodruff 15-Mar-15 7:31am

Since, as Peter suggests in his answer here, you can split the text of the file on all-of carriage returns, semi-colons, and spaces to get an indexable array of words, why bother to change the file ? If you wrote the "rules" for the users, why do you need to do this ?

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2015-03-15T01:02:00

Solution 1

1. Split the input string using String.Split[^]
2. Open you file for append: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.appendtext%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^]
3. Use WriteLine[^] in a loop to add new words...
4. Close the file...

Posted 15-Mar-15 1:02am

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter