Saving/Loading Using()/Try-Catch

Question

I've been digging around the past couple hours on how to implement simple save/load functionality to a game i'm making.

The save data is being stored in a text file, during the game the player can save, storing the player & enemy positions, score etc.

I'm using StreamWriter & StreamReader for this and am having trouble deciding whether to implement this with a using statement or try-catch.

To save space i'll just list the Save methods as they're fundamentally the same as the load methods.

Using:

 static void SaveAccounts(string path)
      {

            using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(path))
            {
                writer.WriteLine(accountNumber);
                writer.WriteLine(name);
                writer.WriteLine(address);
                writer.WriteLine(balance);     
            }
      }

Try Catch

    public void Save(StreamWriter writer)
     {
        writer.WriteLine(accountNumber);
        writer.WriteLine(name);
        writer.WriteLine(address);
        writer.WriteLine(balance);
     }

    public void Save(string filename)
    {
       StreamWriter writer = null;
        try
        {
            writer= new StreamWriter(filename);
            Save(writer);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            throw e;
        }
        finally
        {
            if (writer!= null) writer.Close();
        }
    }

In this case i've used 'accounts' in place of my sprites, just seemed simpler.

So could anyone give me any insight into which you would use? If any.

Many thanks

Answer 1

You should use the using statement.

There is no reason to write 8 extra lines of code that do exact same thing, but wrongly.
There is also no reason to write 4 extra lines of code that do the same thing correctly.