After my blog post yesterday on File.ReadAllLines() vs StreamReader I have been thinking that more code does not necessarily mean more, or does it? I mean syntactically the first one is a one liner and the second one is a few lines, but I do feel that the latter adds more value. Why? Well firstly because streams seem to be an important part and concept in the .NET framework and secondly the streamreader class seems to dispose of resources a bit better. It also seems as if my implementation of the streamreader class deals with something the first option has still to deal with. I mean you have to assign a string array and then somewhere you have to iterate through the content of the array, whereas with the streamreader you can do all of that once. Looping through the contents that gets read by the streamreader class instance can be achieved by either appending the results to a stringbuilder instance or by using a function that implements the IEnumerable interface and uses the yield keyword. Using a function that implements IEnumerable means that you can run a foreach against it. I do honestly find this approach a lot more expressive. Its also interesting to note that the streamreader class performs better in some cases.