System.IO.IOException: file used by another process
- by Srodriguez
Dear all,
I've been working in this small piece of code that seems trivial but still i cannot really see where is the problem. My functions does a pretty simple thing. Opens a file, copy its contents, replace a string inside and copy it back to the original file (a simple search and replace inside a text file then).
I didn't really know how to do that as I'm adding lines to the original file, so i just create a copy of the file, (file.temp) copy also a backup (file.temp) then delete the original file(file) and copy the file.temp to file.
I get an exception while doing the delete of the file.
Here is the sample code:
private static bool modifyFile(FileInfo file, string extractedMethod, string modifiedMethod)
{
Boolean result = false;
FileStream fs = new FileStream(file.FullName + ".tmp", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs);
StreamReader streamreader = file.OpenText();
String originalPath = file.FullName;
string input = streamreader.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine("input : {0}", input);
String tempString = input.Replace(extractedMethod, modifiedMethod);
Console.WriteLine("replaced String {0}", tempString);
try
{
sw.Write(tempString);
sw.Flush();
sw.Close();
sw.Dispose();
fs.Close();
fs.Dispose();
streamreader.Close();
streamreader.Dispose();
File.Copy(originalPath, originalPath + ".old", true);
FileInfo newFile = new FileInfo(originalPath + ".tmp");
File.Delete(originalPath);
File.Copy(fs., originalPath, true);
result = true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex);
}
return result;
}`
And the related exception
System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'E:\mypath\myFile.cs' because it is being used by another process.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.Delete(String path)
at callingMethod.modifyFile(FileInfo file, String extractedMethod, String modifiedMethod)
Normally these errors come from unclosed file streams, but I've taken care of that. I guess I've forgotten an important step but cannot figure out where.
Thank you very much for your help,
