Extra Line Breaks Detected with Visual Studio

Question

While I read my txt file in visual studio, its shows extra line breaks, but when I open same file with notepad it doesn't show those line breaks.

I am reading my file with System.IO.File

var file = File.ReadAllLines(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "myfile.txt")

How to read file without those unwanted linefeeds. Don't want to do replace .replace("\r\n","") since it will replace all genuine line feed as well.

EDit Just Tried with NotePad++ With Notepad ++

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Now with Normal Notepad

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Can you show us these "extra line breaks"? For example, open this file in Notepad and show screenshots. Then, show the contents of `file` variable after reading - using screenshots or copy it here. — Yeldar Kurmangaliyev, Nov 13 '15 at 06:26
Perhaps the line breaks being shown by VS are `"\r"` or `"\n"` but not `"\r\n"` -- have you looked into that yet? — phoog, Nov 13 '15 at 06:28
Open the file in notepad++, go to View > show symbol> show end of line. That should show you all line breaks. What you get from ReadAllLines() should be exactly that. — Kosala W, Nov 13 '15 at 06:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 13 '15 at 06:43

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If you're asking how to replace repeated new lines, the traditional (and lazy and wrong) way to do it is:

text=text.Replace("\r\n\r\n","\r\n");

answered Nov 13 '15 at 06:43

Blindy

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '15 at 06:49

Your Notepad++ screenshot shows the problem very clearly. You have multiple line breaks at the end of certain lines.(Well blank lines in other words).

 var alllines =  File.ReadAllLines(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory +  "myfile.txt")

 var validlines = alllines.Where(l=>!string.IsNullOrEmpty(l));

now use validlines in your code instead of all lines

Extra Line Breaks Detected with Visual Studio

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