Receiving a Discord.Net 2000 character limit warning when I am not sending a message

Question

I have a command below that should send a random word into the context channel.

[Command("word"), Summary("Chooses a random English word.")]
public async Task RandomWord(string culture = "uk")
{
    if (culture == "uk")
    {
        // Reads all the lines of the word list.  
        var allLines = File.ReadAllLines(Resources.english_uk_wordlist);

        // Chooses a random line and its word.
        var word = allLines[_random.Next(0, allLines.Length - 1)];

        // Sends random chosen word to channel.
        await ReplyAsync(word.First().ToString().ToUpper() + word.Substring(1));
    }
}

However, I receive and error saying that I have exceeded Discord's 2000 character message limit on this line.

var allLines = File.ReadAllLines(Resources.english_uk_wordlist);

This is strange to me because reading these lines should have nothing to do with Discord.Net or Discord's API. It is important to note that when I put this text file outside of my Resources.resx, it works fine.

I have also tried using StreamReader which results in the same problem. If it helps, the value of allLines.Length is 854236.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The issue is that Resources.english_wordlist_uk is a string, not a path.

Code A

var location = Resources.english_wordlist_uk;
var readText = File.ReadAllLines(location);

The above code reads Resources.english_wordlist_uk and uses its contents as a path. It does not recognize the file itself as a path.

Code B

var location = Resources.english_wordlist_uk;
using (StringReader sr = new StringReader(location))
{
    var readText = sr.ReadToEndAsync();
}

This code reads the content of Resources.english_wordlist_uk as if it were a string, resulting in readText being the entire contents of the file.

Explanation

The reason I received a 2000 character limit error is because of Code A. Since the content of Resources.english_uk_wordlistis not a path, the error message was something along the lines of: "Specified path (content of the file) does not exist."

Since my command handler sends the error message in the channel, and the error message is hundreds of thousands of characters, Discord could not send the error message. Code B is a clean solution to my problem.