Using absolute path with streamwriter C#

Question

I am trying to use streamwriter to create a text file in the my documents folder, however it thinks i am using a relative path when i am actually using a full path. I am trying to create the file using this path: "%HOMEPATH%/My Documents/", but it treats this as a relative path. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Accepted Answer

You should use `Environment.GetFolderPath` - which in this case would avoid you hard-coding `My Documents` at all:

```
string docs = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
```

If you wanted to get a directory name relative to that, you should use `Path.Combine`:

```
string fooDocsDirectory = Path.Combine(docs, "foo");
```

Using absolute path with streamwriter C#

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