How to read StreamReader text line by line

Question

I have a text file hosted and this file have a organized string like this:

• First line
• Second line
• Third line
• Fourth line
• Sixth line
• Seventh line
• ....................

I'm getting all content from this file with following function:

        private static List<string> lines;

        private static string DownloadLines(string hostUrl)
        {
            var strContent = "";

            var webRequest = WebRequest.Create(hostUrl);

            using (var response = webRequest.GetResponse())
            using (var content = response.GetResponseStream())
            using (var reader = new StreamReader(content))
            {
                strContent = reader.ReadToEnd();
            }

             lines = new List<string>();

             lines.Add(strContent);

            return strContent;

        }


// Button_click

        DownloadLines("http://address.com/folder/file.txt");

            for (int i = 0; i < lines.Count; i++)
            {

                lineAux = lines[0].ToString();

                break;

            }

            Console.WriteLine(lineAux);

Then, how I can access for example the first index like text inside this large organized string that is returned by this method?

Solution

You can read text file line by line this way

private static List<string> DownloadLines(string hostUrl)
    {

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

    var webRequest = WebRequest.Create(hostUrl);

    using (var response = webRequest.GetResponse())
    using (var content = response.GetResponseStream())
    using (var reader = new StreamReader(content))
        {
            while (!reader.EndOfStream)
            {
                strContent.Add(reader.ReadLine());
            }
        }

    return strContent;

}

after returning this list from the method you can access the text line using list index