I need help on why the text won't save to the file after first time.

Text won't save to the file

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;

namespace Project_OSO
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("     Name Database      \r");
            Console.WriteLine("------------------------\n");
            Console.WriteLine("What is your name?");
            var name = Console.ReadLine();
            var currentDate = DateTime.Now;
            Console.WriteLine($"{Environment.NewLine}Hello, {name}, on {currentDate:d} at {currentDate:t}! Welcome to Name Database");
            //File and path you want to create and write to
            string fileName = @"C:\Users\Bruger\Desktop\NameDataBase";
            //Check if the file exists
            if (!File.Exists(fileName))
            {
                 //Create the file and use streamWriter to write text to it.
                //If the file existence is not check, this will overwrite said file.
                //Use the using block so the file can close and variable disposed correctly

I have tried to find a way to get file to save, right now it saving the first time on a new file but when there is text in the file it won't save the new text.

                using (StreamWriter writer = File.CreateText(fileName))
                {
                    writer.WriteLine($"{Environment.NewLine} { name} on the date {currentDate:d} at {currentDate:t}");
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine("------------------------\r");
            Console.WriteLine("     Name Database      \n");
    
            Console.Write($"{Environment.NewLine}Press to exit");
            Console.ReadKey(true);
        }
    }
}

CodePudding user response：

You specifically have a check that skips the file saving if a file already exists.

I would assume you want to append to the file if it already exists.