Is it wrong to post a question and an aswer to the problem in the same post? What if I found an issue in my code and yet I was able to debug it and I wanted to share my discovery with other developers. Would I get kudos or would that be just regarded as annoying?

I was processing a text file of over 27 thousand lines and outing the data to another file. The process would simply stop and the output file showed that it quit in middle of a line.

The fact that this had to becaused by a buffering issue simply just came to me. If I was right, and if I found a solution, I would want to share this discovery with the online software development community.

I decided to fist ask microsoft bing’s AI copilot:

In C# code, there semms to be a delay from when I do a
Stream.IO.StgreamWriter class Writeline method. If I put a breakpoint
after I make this call and run the code to that break point, the
output file does not reflect the latest writtn line. A clue of wha
tmight be happening is the fact that there are about 27 thousand lines
of text that is read from one file and written to another. Is ther
Stream.IO a multi-threaded operation and it is simply a matter of the
process being overrun and the physical writting to the file simply
needs to catach up? if this is the case, then I write the code better
where the process of the program waits until thw writeline command is
processed before the thread of operation continues?

The bot responded with a number of suggestions.

Copilot:

It sounds like you’re experiencing a delay when writing to a file
using StreamWriter in C#. Let’s break down the possible reasons and
explore some solutions:

Buffering and Flushing: By default, StreamWriter buffers data in
memory before writing it to the underlying stream (e.g., a file). This
buffering can cause a delay. To ensure that data is written
immediately, you can call Flush() on the StreamWriter. This forces any
buffered data to be written to the stream. Alternatively, you can set
the AutoFlush property of the StreamWriter to true. When AutoFlush is
enabled, the stream is automatically flushed after each Write or
WriteLine operation1. Async Behavior: If you’re using asynchronous
methods like WriteLineAsync, you should await them to ensure proper
synchronization. Otherwise, you risk corrupting the file or
encountering stream errors. If you don’t want to await the method,
consider using the synchronous WriteLine method instead. However, keep
in mind that this will block the current thread until the write
operation completes2. Multi-Threading and Concurrency: StreamWriter
itself is not designed for concurrent access from multiple threads. If
you’re writing to the same StreamWriter instance from different
threads simultaneously, you may encounter issues. Ensure that you’re
not calling WriteLine concurrently from different threads. If you need
to write concurrently, consider using separate instances of
StreamWriter for each thread. If you’re reading from one file and
writing to another, make sure that the reading and writing operations
are properly synchronized. You might need to use locks or other
synchronization mechanisms to prevent conflicts3. Thread Sleep or
Delay: If you want to introduce a delay between writing lines, you can
use Thread.Sleep (or Task.Delay if you’re in an async context). For
example: C#

 using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("output.txt")) {
     for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
     {
         writer.WriteLine(i.ToString());
         Thread.Sleep(10); // Introduce a 10 ms delay
     } } 

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Adding the line to set AutoFlush to true solved my bug

    writer = new StreamWriter(sFileName);
    writer.AutoFlush = true;