How to skip first line and start reading file from second line in C#

Question

How to start reading file from 2nd line skipping 1st line. This seems to work but is it best way to do so?

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Answer 1

I'm sorry but I see no problem with the way you are doing it though. I couldn't add comment.

So just for the sake of answering, you probably could have try to call ReadLine() once before the loop. Might not be the best way as I don't know whats the behavior of running ReadLine() if its already end of stream, but it nothing is gonna happen then thats gonna save you some checks.

Updated:

To give a more complete answer, calling ReadLine() when the stream is at its end will return a null.

Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamreader.readline.aspx

Remember to check the return for null value.