How to: Read a Text File One Line at a Time (Visual C#)
Visual Studio 2012
This example reads the contents of a text file, one line at a time, into a string using the ReadLine method of the StreamReader class. Each text line is stored into the string line and displayed on the screen.
int counter = 0;
string line;
// Read the file and display it line by line.
System.IO.StreamReader file =
new System.IO.StreamReader(@"c:\test.txt");
while((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
{
System.Console.WriteLine (line);
counter++;
}
file.Close();
System.Console.WriteLine("There were {0} lines.", counter);
// Suspend the screen.
System.Console.ReadLine();
