Read file contents into string, not string array

Question

I'm new to c#. I'm trying to store the contents of a text file into a string. I tried the ReadAllLines method but it requires a string[]

Answer 1

Use File.ReadAllText() like this.

string result = File.ReadAllText(filename);

Answer 2

Use the

File.ReadAllText()

You can find more information on the MSDN site

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.readalltext(v=vs.110).aspx

Answer 3

You can use ReadAllText to read all the content from the text file into a single string.

Answer 4

This will do what you seek:

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("TextFile.txt"))
{
    String line = sr.ReadToEnd();
    Console.WriteLine(line);
}