How to read a text file as string in C#

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How to read a text file as string in C#

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posted 7/5/2011 by Vivek Thakur

Assume you have a text file, and you want to read all its contents into a C# string variable. Here is a quick and easy way to do it in just one line of code:

string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("{{path to your text file goes here}}");

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