How to read text from txt file and save it in string variable

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HI friends i am developing one windows application using C# .

i want to read the content from file and store it in a variable.

the content will be as a path of some other file .

how to read it

thank you

Posted 30-Dec-09 22:38pm

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Nicholas Butler · Answer 1 · 2009-12-30T22:52:00

Solution 2

You can use:

C#

string contents = File.ReadAllText( filepath );

Nick

Posted 30-Dec-09 22:52pm

Nicholas Butler

TechyPol · Answer 2 · 2009-12-30T22:49:00

At the top of your page you require:

<br />
using System.IO;<br />

Then where you are doing the read you'll require:

<br />
FileStream file = new FileStream("c:\path\to\file.txt", FileMode, FileAccess);<br />
<br />
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(file);<br />
<br />
string s = sr.ReadToEnd();<br />
<br />
sr.Close();<br />
<br />
file.Close();<br />
<br />

Hope that helps!