reading file using c#.. truncates first character of every line 1

[chennaiprogrammer]

private System.IO.StreamWriter sw;
private System.IO.StreamReader sr;
string path=@"E:\projects\file1.txt";



void MainFormLoad(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
sr=File.OpenText (path);
listBox1.Items.Clear ();
while((sr.Read ())!=-1)
{
listBox1.Items.Add (sr.ReadLine ());
}
sr.Close ();
}

}
}


Now if file1.txt contains

the data

firstline
secondline
thirdline
fourthline

The output comes as

irstline
econdline
hirdline
ourthline

The first character of each line gets truncated

Please advise how to overcome this problem ?

chris

 

[AndrewJMarshall]

Could the "while((sr.Read ())!=-1)" be eating the first character?

Try this instead:
// NOT TESTED/COMPILED!!!
string RL = sr.ReadLine();
while(RL != null)
{
listBox1.Items.Add(RL);
RL = sr.ReadLine();
}

Andrew

 

[rstum2005]

Yea that works.