Read a Text File One Line at a Time to the List (C#)

This example reads the contents of a text file, one line at a time, into a string using the ReadLine method of the StreamReader class. Each text line is stored into the string line and added to the list.

public static List<string> ReadFromFile(string path)

        {

            List<string> lineList = new List<string>();

            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(path))

            {

                string line;

                while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)

                {

                    lineList.Add(line);

                }

            }

            return lineList;

        }