How best to read a File into List<string>

Question

I am using a list to limit the file size since the target is limited in disk and ram. This is what I am doing now but is there a more efficient way?

readonly List<string> LogList = new List<string>(); ... var logFile = File.ReadAllLines(LOG_PATH); foreach (var s in logFile) LogList.Add(s); 

Answer 1

A little update to Evan Mulawski answer to make it shorter

List<string> allLinesText = File.ReadAllLines(fileName).ToList()

Answer 2

var logFile = File.ReadAllLines(LOG_PATH); var logList = new List<string>(logFile); 

Since logFile is an array, you can pass it to the List<T> constructor. This eliminates unnecessary overhead when iterating over the array, or using other IO classes.

Actual constructor implementation:

public List(IEnumerable<T> collection) {         ...         ICollection<T> c = collection as ICollection<T>;         if( c != null) {             int count = c.Count;             if (count == 0)             {                 _items = _emptyArray;             }             else {                 _items = new T[count];                 c.CopyTo(_items, 0);                 _size = count;             }         }            ... }