Read Entire File

[Simcoder]

What is the easiest way to read an entire text file with multiple lines one

character at a time.

 

Example, lets say the text file has 3 lines, containing the following letters below, how would I read in each indivdual character(including spaces) into

a variable and when it reaches the end of the file, last character (z), make

the process stop. I know there's an easy way to achieve this, any help

would be much appreciated.

 

+-------------------+

| TextFile1.txt

| a b c d e f g h i j

| k l m n o p q r s t

| u v w z y z

+-------------------+

 

 

-=Simcoder=-

[HJB417]

when it reaches the end of the file, last character (z),

umm, EOF, and last character(z) = EOF ????

static string GetText(string filename)
{
System.IO.TextReader rdr = System.IO.File.OpenText(filename);
try
{
	return rdr.ReadToEnd();
}
finally
{
	txt.Close();
}
}

[jdemackio]

Try this:

Dim filePath As String = "C:\test.txt"
Dim streamReader1 As New IO.StreamReader(filePath)

' read the entire file into one variable
Dim strFileText As String = streamReader1.ReadToEnd

' if you want to separate each line, then use a string array
' every element of the stringLines array will be a line in the file
Dim strLines() As String = Split(strFileText, vbCr)

' close the stream
streamReader1.Close()

 

Hope this is what you were looking for.

[Nerseus]

Unless you must read it one byte at a time, I'd read in the whole string and loop through each char, one at a time. Something like the following:

string s = System.IO.File.OpenText("c:\\test.txt").ReadToEnd();
foreach(char ch in s.ToCharArray())
{
}

 

-ner

[Simcoder]

Thanks for the replys. Thats exactly what I needed Nerseus. Your the man =)

 

-=Simcoder=-