Delete a list in txt file which are older than today's date

Question

My C# program has a function which appends this lists in a program real-time. My program is return a list of values date, name and status.

Do you have any idea how to append only the list with the latest time?

This is my C# code

System.IO.File.AppendAllText("rn_agent.txt", DateTime.Now.ToString("yyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") 
           + Environment.NewLine 
           +  name 
           + Environment.NewLine + status + Environment.NewLine);

rn_agent.txt

2022-05-26 13:57:29
Dannie Delos Alas
Available
2022-05-26 13:57:29
Krishian Santos
Available
2022-05-26 13:57:29
Puja Pal
Unavailable
2022-05-27 14:43:42
Maricar De Mesa
Occupied
2022-05-27 14:43:42
Pula Al
Occupied
2022-05-27 14:43:42
Marjorie Cacayan
Unavailable

Answer 1

You should use File.WriteAllText() method instead of File.AppendAllText(), to write latest data into the file.

var newText = $"{DateTime.Now.ToString("yyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")} \n {name} \n {statu} \n";
System.IO.File.WriteAllText("rn_agent.txt",newText);

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What is difference between File.WriteAllText() and File.AppendAllText()?

File.WriteAllText():

Creates a new file, write the contents to the file, and then closes the file. If the target file already exists, it is overwritten.

File.AppendAllText():

Opens a file, appends the specified string to the file, and then closes the file.

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Update:

If you want to store all the records which available for today then try below code,

var today = DateTime.Today.ToString("yyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
var newTextList = new List<string>();

//Dummy foreach loop
foreach(var data in agentsData)
{
   newTextList.Add($"{today} \n {data.Name} \n {data.Status}");
}

System.IO.File.WriteAllLines("rn_agent.txt", newTextList);