Load Text from File to String in C#

This example shows how to load text file to string variable.

StreamReader

To load text from file to string you can use StreamReader.Re­adToEnd method. First create new instance of StreamReader. As a parameter in constructor you can pass string with file path or Stream instance. Default encoding is UTF-8.

using System.IO;

StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(filePath);
string text = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
streamReader.Close();

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