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Jul 01

C# Read Text File into String

Posted by Timm 6 Comments »

Here is the easiest way to read an entire text file into a C# string:

string s = System.IO.File.ReadAllText( path );

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Yann Trevin on July 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
It is interesting to notice that the File.ReadAllText and File.ReadAllLines methods were added in the version 2.0 of the .NET framework; mainly because in the previous versions, the necessary usage of a Stream object made reading text files difficult and unintuitive for most of the developers.
rima7 on October 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
thanx
Jack on February 1st, 2010 at 12:28 pm
How do u read a file like blablabla.txt and say if on it theres like 1001 u download a file
Eric on May 14th, 2010 at 9:21 am
How to read a RTF File from embedded resource into a C# string?
Mike Powers on May 26th, 2010 at 12:53 am
thanks–that helps me a lot!
Pam on November 12th, 2010 at 3:30 am
Good, what about case when I need to use the text line by line. Should I split it after that? or do I need to read it into array