C# File.ReadAllLines not breaking on line feeds

Question

Hello,

I have an application that I am building that needs to modify a configuration file.

My problem is that I am not able to read the file in line by line. I keep geeting the the entire file as a single string.

string ConfigTemplate = AEBuildsSPFolderName + "\Template_BuildReleaseScript.Config";

string[] fileSourceLines = File.ReadAllLines(ConfigTemplate, Encoding.Default); -->Returns the entire file contents into the first array element.

using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ConfigTemplate)) { string line; while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null) -->Returns the entire file contents into the first line read.

Any idea of what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

david

Answer 1

Your file probably uses \n characters (without \r) as newlines.

Answer 2

I'm guessing the line break character used might not be \r\n

When you read your entire file into a single string, try calling yourString.Split(new char[] { '\r', '\n' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); and see if that works for you.

Also since ReadAllLines() was just reading into a single string anyway, you could simply use ReadAllText().