Read a disk file

Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Visual C# (CSharp, C Sharp, C-Sharp) Developer Training, Visual Studio

This C# code snippet reads a disk file one line at a time.

using System.IO; 
...
string inputLine;
 
FileStream inputStream 
   = new FileStream 
   ("C:\\file.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); 
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader (inputStream); 
 
while ((inputLine = streamReader.ReadLine()) != null)
{ 
   System.Console.WriteLine (inputLine); 
}; 
streamReader.Close(); 
inputStream.Close();