Small File Input Problem

[Steve25]

I'm trying to make a simple program where a text file is read in and it prints the text in a textbox and the number of lines in the file. I cant get the number of lines to come up OK and get the file to display in the textbox. However I cannot get the program to do both these things in one program. Here is my code so far:

if (openFile.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
            {
                //Create variable for storing the number of lines
                int lines = 0;
                string fileName = openFile.FileName;
                StreamReader objReader = new StreamReader(fileName);
                //Loop until we reach the end of the file and increase the line count
                while (objReader.ReadLine() != null)
                {
                    lines++;
                }
                //Print the contents of the file to the textbox
                txtFile.Text = objReader.ReadToEnd();
                lblLines.Text = lines.ToString();
                objReader.Close();
            }

[BigEd781]

You are using a stream, so when you call ReadLine( ) the position of the stream is being incremented. So, when you later call ReadToEnd( ) there is nothing left to read. Why not just create the string while you are looping through each line, i.e., get rid of the call to ReadToEnd( )?

[eclipsed4utoo]

make sure you set the textbox for the text to be MultiLine.

OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
if (ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    int counter = 0;

    using (TextReader tr = new StreamReader(ofd.FileName))
    {
        while (tr.Peek() >= 0)
        {
            sb.AppendLine(tr.ReadLine());
            counter++;
        }
    }

    txtText.Text = sb.ToString();
    txtCount.Text = counter.ToString();
}

[Steve25]

Managed to get it working, thanks