save listView content to a file

Question

I'm trying to save the contents of my listView. But I'm having some issues with it. In my text file it will look like this:

ListViewItem: {1234};ListViewSubItem: {daily};ListViewSubItem: {Backup};ListViewSubItem: {Every 2 days at: 23:0};ListViewSubItem: {};ListViewSubItem: {}

But I don't like that it adds "ListViewItem:" and "ListViewSubItem:" etc with my data.. I just want those strings inside {}.

And here is my code:

        FileStream file = new FileStream(dataFolder + "\\BukkitGUI\\schedule.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(file);

        foreach (ListViewItem listItem in listView1.Items)
        {
            sw.WriteLine(listItem + ";" + listItem.SubItems[1] + ";" + listItem.SubItems[2] + ";" + listItem.SubItems[3] + ";" + listItem.SubItems[4] + ";" + listItem.SubItems[5]);
        }

        sw.Close();
        file.Close();

Any help on this?

EDIT: Image of my listView:

Answer 1

Your code does this:

foreach (ListViewItem listItem in listView1.Items)
{
    sw.WriteLine(listItem + ";" + listItem.SubItems[1] + ";" + listItem.SubItems[2] + ";" + listItem.SubItems[3] + ";" + listItem.SubItems[4] + ";" + listItem.SubItems[5]);
}

This is doing the following:

foreach (ListViewItem listItem in listView1.Items)
{
    string listItemString = listItem.ToString();
    // etc.
}

What do you think the value of listItem.ToString() will be?

The default implementation of object.ToString() simply outputs the name of the type. The implementation for ListViewItem and ListViewSubItem apparently output the name of the type, plus the content of the item or subitem.

If you want something different output, then you need to do it yourself. Output listItem.Text and listItem.SubItems[n].Text instead.