Reading a text file word by word

Question

I have a text file containing just lowercase letters and no punctuation except for spaces. I would like to know the best way of reading the file char by char, in a way that

Answer 1

If you want to read it whitout spliting the string - for example lines are too long, so you might encounter OutOfMemoryException, you should do it like this (using streamreader):

while (sr.Peek() >= 0)
{
    c = (char)sr.Read();
    if (c.Equals(' ') || c.Equals('\t') || c.Equals('\n') || c.Equals('\r'))
    {
        break;
    }
    else
        word += c;
}
return word;