Question

EDIT:

Due to random downvotes still coming in I guess I can clarify this some more.

Essentially the question is asking how do you read from a text file in C#. The code i thought would work is below. The answer provides what actually works. Please comment when you downvote.

OLD:

I’m using Microsoft visual studios to write a video game, but can’t seem to get it to take in input from a text file. If i comment out the following line and and things based off of it, it works fine. If I add only this line back in then it runs but the window never pops up.

string[] allLines = File.ReadAllLines("map1.txt");

I also have the statement to be sure it is included.

using System;
using System.IO;

If you’d like more code I can post it but it’s a pretty large amount.

OLD-EDIT: To clarify, no window would pop up like it normally would when i ran my game but also no error messages would popup either. My txt file was included in the content but for some reason wasn’t working. I used the full path and now it works!

Answer 1

I suggest using a fullpath here, as the file might not be in the place
that your program is trying to read from (and hence you get a problem in reading it).

string fullPath = @"C:\MyFantasticVideoGame\map.txt";
string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(fullPath);