StreamReader does not read in carriage returns

Question

I have to write a console application for a computer course that I'm taking. The program reads text in from a file using StreamReader, splits the string into single words and saves them in a String array and then prints the words out backwards.

Whenever there is a carriage return in the file, the file stops reading in the text. Could anyone help me with this?

Here is the main program:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace Assignment2
{
    class Program
    {
        public String[] chop(String input)
        {
            input = Regex.Replace(input, @"\s+", " ");
            input = input.Trim();

            char[] stringSeparators = {' ', '\n', '\r'};
            String[] words = input.Split(stringSeparators);

            return words;
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Program p = new Program();

            StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("input.txt");
            String line = sr.ReadLine();

            String[] splitWords = p.chop(line);

            for (int i = 1; i <= splitWords.Length; i++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(splitWords[splitWords.Length - i]);
            }

            Console.ReadLine();

        }
    }
}

And here is the file "input.txt":

This is the file you can use to 
provide input to your program and later on open it inside your program to process the input.

Answer 1

You can use StreamReader.ReadToEnd instead of StreamReader.ReadLine.

// Cange this:
// StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("input.txt");
// String line = sr.ReadLine();

string line;
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("input.txt"))
{
    line = sr.ReadToEnd();
}

The addition of the using block will make sure the input file is closed properly, as well.

Another alterantive would just be to use:

string line = File.ReadAllText("input.txt"); // Read the text in one line

ReadLine reads a single line from the file, and strips off the trailing carraige return and line feed characters.

ReadToEnd will read the entire file as a single string, and preserve those characters, allowing your chop method to work as written.