Question

I’m trying the following code to read a number of text files into array of string

for (int j = 0; j < paths.Length; j++)
{
   StreamReader fs = new StreamReader(paths[j]);

   string file_text = fs.ReadToEnd();
   textToarray[j] = file_text;

   fs.Close();
}

Can I do the same procedure with one time employing of the StreamRreader? is there any better way?

Answer 1

You can use LINQ and File.ReadAllText methods together to do it in a single line of code:

var textToArray = paths.Select(p => File.ReadAllText(p)).ToArray();