Unity c# StreamReader to list always returns false.

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1

Hello.
Can someone please help me with a script?

I use StreamReader to read and write from an inventory list to a .txt, but every time i compare an item in the list, it just returns false no matter what.
There is no Errors ans no Exceptions.

The “reading to the list part” works fine, i get a nice list in the unity inspector, but when i compare the Elements of the list to other strings, it returns false, even though I am 100% positive it is exactly the same.

My script is as follows:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

public List<string> IngameItems = new List<string>();
    
    void Start ()
    {
         var sr = new StreamReader(Application.dataPath + "/" + "Resources/Items.txt");
    
         var fileContents = sr.ReadToEnd();
         sr.Close();
    
         var lines = fileContents.Split("

"[0]);

    	foreach (string line in lines) 
    	{
    	       IngameItems.Add(line);
    	}
    
         if (IngameItems[0] == "ACW-R")
         print("Found ACW-R");
    }

It never prints: “Found ACW-R”.

There is definitely an “ACW-R” in the first slot of the list. None missed space like " ACW-R" or "ACW-R " or anything like that.

I have tried a lot of different things, so please help me if you can.
There is not a lot of data on StreamReader and StreamWriter for c#, so I would be most delighted if you could link me to some pages explaining just this. :smiley:

Also, Is there a better way to read and save data from a list in unity?

Thank you.

Jesper

2

First off, I’m gonna be nitpickish and comment about the unreasonable use of inferred typing.

Second of all, whats up with this index access at 0?

var lines = fileContents.Split("

"[0]);

Try using Split( @"
" ), or Split( Environment.NewLine )