write to text file in C# from rich textbox including new lines

Question

I am trying to write text to a text file. I have googled a lot and tried a lot. I can get it to write to a file, that's not a problem. However it does not include the new line character apparently. I have a Windows form. It has a single rich textbox on it. The user types in whatever they want, and I pass that text to the variable "plainText". I want to then save whatever is in that variable to a text file. Here is what I currently have.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;

namespace Keep_it_Private
{
   public partial class Form1 : Form
  {
    string plainText = null;
    string path = @"C:\Users\Brannon\Desktop\temp.txt";

       public Form1()
      {
        InitializeComponent();
      }

     private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        plainText = richTextBox1.Text;
        File.WriteAllText(path, plainText);
    }
  }
}

I am currently using Visual Studios 2012 and Windows 10.

Have you tried to use the string[] textBox.Lines ? – Ian H. Dec 14 '15 at 07:48 — Ian H., Dec 14 '15 at 07:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '15 at 06:59

1

You can use RichTextBox.SaveFile Method.

richTextBox1.SaveFile(path, RichTextBoxStreamType.RichText);

RichTextBoxStreamType specifies the types of input and output streams used to load and save data in the RichTextBox control.

answered Dec 14 '15 at 06:59

Irshad

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