Having trouble reading in a certain number of lines to string

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C#

Hello all,

I'm having trouble reading in a certain number of lines to string. Seems my strings are too large and it won't read after a certain number of lines (it just doubles over itself).

Any ideas? I really need the first 4,000 lines of a text file read in.

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you,

Suraci

Edit: I tried specifically telling it to read in those 4000 lines, and I also tried setting a max input number of characters at 1,881,000... still ended up maxing out.