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Aaron Selonke
10,323 PointsC# File.ReadAllText() Excption says “Could not find the file”
Cant figure out why the File.ReadAllText() Method is throwing en error. The file it is trying to read from is written exactly the same
Here are Screenshots
2)Error message - and Screen shot of File structure
namespace HandlingExceptions
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string content = File.ReadAllText(@"D:\test.txt");
Console.WriteLine(content);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
3 Answers
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsJust a wild guess - zero length file?
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Alessandro Romani
19,723 PointsIn your code I can't see the using System.IO; Why?
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsIt seems to have compiled without it.
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Aaron Selonke
10,323 PointsFound the answer on Stack,
seems the default setting for windows is to not show you the complete file path (unless change the viewing)
so that file Test.txt was actually Test.txt.txt, and so the compiler could not find it
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsIt doesn't show the complete file path ... in your source code? I know windows explorer does stuff like that (unless turned off) .. but source code? Sheesh.
What IDE is this?