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 · Accepted 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