C# Programming: Try-Catch Exception Methods

[RoxburyGuy58]

So let's say that I have a text file that has hundreds of words. I want to use a try-catch exception method that will only write out all of the five-letter words in the .txt file. This is being coded in Visual Studio 2012. I understand the basic syntax of a try-catch and what it does, but I'm not entirely sure how to approach the problem. I've been told that catching IO Exceptions would help, and I looked up a bunch of "Nearest-Neighbor Algorithms", but it's tough to understand. Help please?

 

[Kimimaru]

You can just read in each line and separate the words by whitespace. You can then check each word's length in the line and see if it's 5. I'm not entirely sure why you need try and catch except for catching if the file does not exist or cannot be read.

EDIT: Exception handling is pretty slow, so you'll want to avoid it unless you absolutely need it.