The example below shows how to display data from a text file:

Example

@{
var dataFile = Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/Persons.txt");
Array userData = File.ReadAllLines(dataFile);
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>Reading Data from a File</h1>
@foreach (string dataLine in userData)
{
  foreach (string dataItem in dataLine.Split(','))
  {@dataItem <text>&nbsp;</text>}
  <br />
}
</body>
</html>

Example explained

Server.MapPath finds the exact text file path.

File.ReadAllLines opens the text file and reads all lines from the file into an array.

For each dataItem in each dataline of the array the data is displayed



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