Read a text file and returns a string

There are a lot of information in the project need to be stored in a text file, such as some introductory information, articles, etc., it is often necessary to read this file Chinese, and returns a string.

The following provides a read file and returns a string method, as follows:

/// <Summary>
        /// read file into a string
        /// </ Summary>
        /// absolute path <param name = "filePath"> file </ param>
        public String FileToString (String filePath)
        {
            return FileToString (filePath, Encoding.GetEncoding ( "GB2312"));
        }
        /// <Summary>
        /// read file into a string
        /// </ Summary>
        /// <param name = "filePath "> absolute path of the file </ param>
        /// <param name =" encoding "> character encoding </ param>
        public String FileToString (String filePath,Encoding Encoding)
        {
            // create a stream reader
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (filePath, encoding);
            strContent = String "";
            the try
            {
                // read the stream
                strContent reader.ReadToEnd = ();
               
            }
            the catch (Exception EX)
            {
                debug strings // output
                string strOuput = string.Format ( "string to read the file an error occurred, ErrMsg {0}, the InnerException. 1} {\ n-", ex.Message, ex.InnerException);
                // write information to the log output file
                DllComm.TP_WriteAppLogFileEx (DllComm.g_AppLogFileName, strOuput);
            }
            the finally
            {
                // Close stream reader
                reader.Close ();
            }
            return strContent;
        }

Reproduced in: https: //www.cnblogs.com/kevinGao/archive/2011/09/23/2186444.html