How to read text file by particular line separator character?

Question

Reading a text file using streamreader.

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(FileName, Encoding.Default))
{
     string line = sr.ReadLine();
}
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Answer 1

This code snippet will read a line from a file until it encounters "\n".

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path)) 
{
     string line = string.Empty;
     while (sr.Peek() >= 0) 
     {
          char c = (char)sr.Read();
          if (c == '\n')
          {
              //end of line encountered
              Console.WriteLine(line);
              //create new line
              line = string.Empty;
          }
          else
          {
               line += (char)sr.Read();
          }
     }
}

Because this code reads character by character it will work with a file of any length without being constrained by available memory.