How do you search a large text file for a string without going line by line in C#?

Question

I have a large text file that I need to search for a specific string. Is there a fast way to do this without reading line by line?

This method is extremely slow beca

Answer 1

If you want to speed up the line-by-line reading you can create a queue-based application:
One thread reads the lines and enqeues them into a threadsafe Queue. A second one can then process the strings