System.IO in javascript

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Ive looked online and doesn’t have much detail on using the StreamWriter or StreamReader in javascript language only in c# and c++. Does anyone have any examples I can look at so I can understand how to make it work. What I want to use it for is I have several variables that I want to write into a txt file. Its basically a data structure that I am looking to create from using StreamWriter. Example is I have multiple users that can have access to there records like username,firstname,lastname. Now when I want to search for a specific username how would I access there information in txt file. I was thinking designing it by this example (username,firstname,lastname). Any help of understanding IO would be greatly appreciated.

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When using Javascript pretty much all of the .Net classes work exactly the same, you just need to remember you are working in JS and not c#, so things like variable declarations need to change. Taking the MSDN StringWriter example you end up with:

#pragma strict
import System.IO;

function Start () {
	var dirs : DirectoryInfo[] = new DirectoryInfo("/Users/graham").GetDirectories();
	var sw : StreamWriter = new System.IO.StreamWriter("DriveDirs.txt");
	sw.WriteLine("Found the following folder:");
	for (var dir : DirectoryInfo in dirs){
		sw.WriteLine(dir.Name);
	}
	sw.Close();
	
	var sr : StreamReader = new System.IO.StreamReader("DriveDirs.txt");

	Debug.Log(sr.CurrentEncoding);	
	var line : String;
	
	while (!sr.EndOfStream) {
		line = sr.ReadLine();
		Debug.Log(line);
	}
}