Exam 22: Im Saving for the Future Sequential Access Files

After creating the StreamReader object, you declare a variable to store the object in the computer's internal memory.

Before you create a StreamWriter object, you first declare a variable to store the object in the computer's internal memory.

Most input and output files are composed of lines of text that are both read and written sequentially.

Most input and output files are referred to as ____ files.

The syntax for determining whether a sequential access file exists is ____.

In most cases, you assign the string returned by the ReadLine method to a String variable.

You can use the Exists method to avoid the run time error that occurs when the computer cannot locate the file you want opened for input.

Programmers refer to a sequence of characters as a(n) ____.

The syntax to close a sequential access file associated with a StreamWriter object is ____.

The ReadLine method requires you to provide the file's name.

The "doc" filename extension is commonly used when naming sequential access files.

An item of data-such as the string "Yolanda"-is viewed similarly by a human being and a computer.

Files to which data is written are called ____ files.

The ____ method can be used to read a file's contents, one line at a time.

The ____ method returns the Boolean value True if the file exists; otherwise, it returns the Boolean value False.

The syntax of the Peek method is ____.

The ReadLine method returns a string that contains the sequence of characters in the current line, including the newline character at the end of the line.

Files that are read by the computer are called ____ files.

A ____ is defined as a sequence (stream) of characters followed by the newline character.

In addition to getting data from the keyboard and sending data to the computer screen, an application can also get data from and send data to a file on a disk.