How to read an entire file into a string variable?

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jhocking

Instead of reading the entire file into a single string you should read the file in a line at a time, using the same string variable every time, and check that line until you encounter the text you are looking for.

Or use a bank like GFK suggests. I should really learn how to use banks for data; I haven't done much file i/o other than ReadLine/WriteLine.