SetOut example. With this program, we create a new StreamWriter in a using-statement. Then we use the SetOut method and pass the StreamWriter instance to it.
And After this point, all the Console.WriteLine calls are printed to the file C:\out.txt.
using System;
using System.IO;
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("C:\\out.txt"))
{
Console.SetOut(writer);
Act();
}
}
static void Act()
{
Console.WriteLine("This is Console.WriteLine");
Console.WriteLine("Thanks for playing!");
}
}This is Console.WriteLine
Thanks for playing!
SetIn example. We can also use Console.SetIn to set the input source—we can use to automate calls such as a Console.ReadLine. Streams can be dynamically modified in the .NET Framework.
using System;
using System.IO;
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("C:\\programs\\file.txt"))
{
Console.SetIn(reader);
X();
}
}
static void X()
{
string line = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("READLINE RETURNED: " + line);
}
}HELLO WORLD!READLINE RETURNED: HELLO WORLD!
Summary. We used the Console.SetOut method for changing the target of the output of a console program. We also used SetIn to change the input source.
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