How to open a large text file in C#

Question

I have a text file that contains about 100000 articles. The structure of file is:

.Document ID 42944-YEAR:5
.Date  03\\08\\11
.Cat  political
Article Content 1

.         


        

Answer 1

Something like this:

using (var fileStream = File.OpenText(@"path to file"))
{
    do
    {
        var fileLine = fileStream.ReadLine();
        // process fileLine here

    } while (!fileStream.EndOfStream);
}