Load text file to memory read by lines

Question

Hi A simple basic question: I have an application in which I read ocasunally lines from a text file. I currently use StreamReader and LoadLine() in a loop to call. My problem is that I do not want to keep the file open all the time and therefroe I wish to load the file bulk to memory and close the file and then read lines from memory (like the Readline()). Please advise. Sam

Sam Hobbs · Answer

You can read the entire file using StreamReader . ReadToEnd then put that string into a StringReader. Alternatively you can probably convert the string (from StreamReader . ReadToEnd) to an array using String.Split(
).

Sam · Answer

Thanks Sam it does the work. Only comment is that the syntax is somewhat different but the idea helped me out. //The code that works looks as follows: StreamReader file = new StreamReader (fileName); string mystring = file.ReadToEnd(); file.Close(); char [] delimiter = new char [] { ''  '
' }; string [] line = mystring.Split(delimiter StringSplitOptions .RemoveEmptyEntries); for ( int i = 0; i { Console .WriteLine(line[i]); } Sam

Load text file to memory, read by lines