what is bad about this TextWriter method?

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the tf.txt file has 0 bytes and when calling this method several times over the loop I get:

the process cannot access " " because it is being used by ano开发者_如何学Pythonther process

Yes, you're not closing the TextWriter. Thus the file handle remains open, so you can't create another one writing to the same file.

Use a using statement:

// Consider using File.CreateText instead, btw
using (TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(...))
{
    ...
}

I'm surprised that your file is empty, admittedly... did it throw an exception the first time you called it, e.g. in GetTerms()? That would explain it. You might need a using statement for IndexReader as well, by the way - we can't really tell.

Why is tw.Close commented out? This might be the cause of "is being used by another process" since the file would be held open until closed.