FormatException Error

[baba_944]

So I'm fairly new to programming and I've been following this gentleman's video tutorial for a good while and is very helpful and informative. The other day, I've been watching him teaching us Exception handling in C# and he told us to type this:

 

StreamReader SR = new StreamReader("C:\\Test\\Sonic.txt");

Console.WriteLine(SR.ReadToEnd());

SR.Close();

 

It ran fine for me and that's why I've dived deeper into his tutorials. Until yesterday, when I decided instead of watching more of his tutorials I'd practice code for awhile. Then that's when the problem arises. I typed it in exactly as he had it, I even double checked it, but then it gave me a FormatException Error. It ran smoothly, but then the command prompt window gave me that error. This block of code should execute what's in the text file and put that in the command prompt window. I've researched "what causes FormatException errors", "ways you can get FormatException errors", and things of that nature but to no avail.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

[Tails spin]

I haven't used C# before but I have used C++ and Java. Currently I'm taking a more advanced Java course to brush up my skill in a specific programming language.

 

From what I have seen in java may or may not apply to C# but in java you have to import a specific class in order to read in files or input from the user.

 

in the input case we need a Scanner library to read in input.

 

that may have been the case.

[Tails spin]

Also it would help if you provided all the code. just a piece of it won't help much. does the error message specifically point to that portion of the code

[baba_944]

I gotcha:

 

using System;

using System.IO;

 

namespace Practice2

{

 

class MainClass

 

{

   

    public static void Maid()

{

 

     StreamReader SR = new StreamReader("C:\\Test\\Sonic.txt");

     Console.WriteLine(SR.ReadToEnd());

     SR.Close();

 

}

 

}

 

}

 

}

   

That's all. I'm in Monodevelop.

[Tails spin]

So if this is your copied code then look at the public static void Maid().

 

its a small spelling error

 

its public static void Main()

 

try that first if not let me know cuz everything else seems to be fine.

 

edit:

I think you also have an extra }.

[goku262002]

While unrelated I don't think you guys know theres a special tag for coding:

While its not in the Special BBCode settings you can still use it by putting [code*] [*/code] tags sans *

just make sure to only use the tag once otherwise the 1st code tag wipes the others out.

[baba_944]

So if this is your copied code then look at the public static void Maid().

 

its a small spelling error

 

its public static void Main()

 

try that first if not let me know cuz everything else seems to be fine.

 

edit:

I think you also have an extra }.

That wasn't' the compiler's mistake those two mistakes were mine. This was not copy/paste I typed it by hand. Here's the real code:

 

using System;

using System.IO;

namespace Practice2

{

    class MainClass

    {

        public static void Main ()

        {

            StreamReader SR = new StreamReader("C:\\Test\\G.txt");

            Console.WriteLine(SR.ReadToEnd());

            SR.Close();

        }

    }

}