Text file read line by line then convert to multiple strings

Will Green

What i'm doing is saving things to a .txt file, each piece of information per line. (i.e. first name is on the first line, last name on the second line, email on the third line and so on) It then saves to a .txt file. What I want to do is read the .txt file and create a string for each line. So the first line would be one string and that string would have their first name in it. The second string would have their last name, the third string would have their email and so on. I also want to know if there is a better way for me to save data. Thanks.

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Jan Montano17y ago
private void opencomingSoonToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   loadFile.Filter = "Text files|*.txt";
   loadFile.FileName = "";

   DialogResult dialogResult = loadFile.ShowDialog();

   if (dialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
   {
       string getFile = loadFile.FileName;
       StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(getFile);

       string fileContent = stream.ReadToEnd();
       string[] fileLines = fileContent.Split('\n');

       stream.Close();

       MessageBox.Show(fileLines[0], "First Name");
       MessageBox.Show(fileLines[1], "Last Name");
       MessageBox.Show(fileLines[2], "Email Address");
   }

   //file.Close();
}
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Will Green17y ago
[quote] private void opencomingSoonToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { loadFile.Filter = "Text files|*.txt"; loadFile.FileName = ""; loadFile.ShowDialog(); string getFile = loadFile.FileName; StreamReader file = File.OpenText(getFile); string fileData = file.ReadToEnd(); string[] fileLines = fileData.Split((char)'\n'); if (loadFile.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { StreamReader openText = File.OpenText(loadFile.FileName); string openTextData = openText.ReadToEnd(); string[] openTextLines = openTextData.Split((char)'\n'); MessageBox.Show(openTextLines[0]); } file.Close(); }[/quote] ---------- That's what I currently have right now, but the MessageBox doesn't show up after I load the file.
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Will Green17y ago
How do I use it? Like line[1], etc.?
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Roei Bar17y ago

StringCollection mylines = new StringCollection()

 int counter = 0;
string line;

// Read the file and display it line by line.
System.IO.StreamReader file = 
   new System.IO.StreamReader("c:\\test.txt");
while((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
{
  mylines,Add(line);
   counter++;
}

file.Close();

that will give you all lines in a collection of strings :-)

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