public static void ShowAllPosts()
{
List <Post> myPosts = Postfile.GetPosts();
myPosts.Sort();
Postutils.PrintAllPosts(myPosts);
Console.WriteLine("");
Console.WriteLine("Would you like to return to the menu? 1 for yes.");
int userChoice = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
if (userChoice == 1)
{
Console.Clear();
Menu();
}
}
public static List <Post> DeletePosts()
{
List <Post> myPosts = new List <Post>();
StreamReader inFile = null;
//try catch error handling
try
{
inFile = new StreamReader("posts.txt");
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e) //create an exception variable that we expect to be the error for the catch
{
Console.WriteLine("Something went wrong... returning a blank list 0}", e);
return(myPosts);
}
string line = inFile.ReadLine(); //reading in the data from posts.txt and putting it into variable line
while (line != null) //runs as long as there is still data in the text file
{
string[] temp = line.Split("#"); //read data in and split it into temp string array
//DateTime dateTime = DateTime.Parse(temp[2]);
myPosts.Add(new Post()
{
id = int.Parse(temp[0]), text = temp[1], dateTime = DateTime.Parse(temp[2])
});
line = inFile.ReadLine(); //update read
}
Console.WriteLine("What is the ID of the post you would like to delete?");
Postutils.PrintAllPostsDelete(myPosts);
int deleteId = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
myPosts.RemoveAt(deleteId - 1); //-1 so we delete the index of the post the user wants and not the index that is one less in the list
inFile.Close();
SaveAllPosts(myPosts);
return(myPosts);
}