Reading and Writing Files
+To open a file for reading or writing, we can use System.IO.File.
using (var stream = File.OpenRead("path\\to\\file.csv"))
+{
+}
+
+using (var stream = File.OpenWrite("path\\to\\file.csv"))
+{
+}
+These both return a FileStream for working with our file. Since our data is text, we will need to use a StreamReader and StreamWriter to read and write the text.
using (var stream = File.OpenRead("path\\to\\file.csv"))
+using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
+{
+}
+
+using (var stream = File.OpenWrite("path\\to\\file.csv"))
+using (var writer = new StreamWriter(stream))
+{
+}
+StreamReader and StreamWriter have shortcuts for doing this.
using (var reader = new StreamReader("path\\to\\file.csv"))
+{
+}
+
+using (var writer = new StreamWriter("path\\to\\file.csv"))
+{
+}
+CsvHelper doesn't know anything about your encoding, so if you have a specific encoding, you'll need to specify that in your stream.
+using (var reader = new StreamReader("path\\to\\file.csv", Encoding.UTF8))
+{
+}
+
+using (var writer = new StreamWriter("path\\to\\file.csv", Encoding.UTF8))
+{
+}
+CsvReader and CsvWriter take a TextReader and TextWriter in their constructors. TextReader and TextWriter are abstract classes for reading and writing text. StreamReader inherits TextReader and StreamWriter inherits TextWriter, so we can use those with CsvReader and CsvWriter.
using (var reader = new StreamReader("path\\to\\file.csv"))
+using (var csv = new CsvReader(reader))
+{
+}
+
+using (var writer = new StreamWriter("path\\to\\file.csv"))
+using (var csv = new CsvWriter(writer))
+{
+}
+