Question

Hi

I am trying to read a plain text file named “test.txt” from my system but all the attempts
File.Exists(), StreamReder are not getting the file, that is not a new task for me but i am irritated due to this strange behavior. I have given full permissions to the file but in vain. I am doing the test in a C# console application. The system has a fresh installation and I am wondering of any permission issue when run in debug mode. I also copied the file to Debug folder but still same error. Can anyone please guide me about this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

There is a neat function in C# for reading string files: (in System.IO namespace)

string text = File.ReadAllText("test.txt");

If you are having trouble with the path, you can add test.txt as a resource with copy to (add the file to teh project, right-click properties and select Copy to output directory.

Then you can use:

string path = Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "test.txt");
File.ReadAllText(path);