Reading lines of text from file with Using and Yield Return

Question

I have the method below which uses Yield Return to read large ( >1m ) lines of text from a file.

    private static IEnumerable<string> ReadLineFromFile(TextReader fileReader)
    {
        using (fileReader)
        {
            string currentLine;
            while ((currentLine = fileReader.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                yield return currentLine;
            }
        }
    }

I need to be able to write every 10 lines returned from this method to different files.

How do I consume this method without enumerating all the lines?

Any answer is very much appreciated.

Answer 1

I think I finally got it working :-)

        var listOfBufferedLines = ReadLineFromFile(ReadFilePath);

        var listOfLinesInBatch = new List<string>();
        foreach (var line in listOfBufferedLines)
        {
            listOfLinesInBatch.Add(line);

            if (listOfLinesInBatch.Count % 1000 == 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Writing Batch.");
                WriteLinesToFile(listOfLinesInBatch, LoadFilePath);
                listOfLinesInBatch.Clear();
            }
        }

        // writing the remaining lines
        WriteLinesToFile(listOfLinesInBatch, LoadFilePath);