Powershell - Powertips: Reading Text Files as One Chunk

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In a previous tip, you learned how to quickly read in text files. The result was a string array. If you want to read the text as one large string ultrafast, you can use this approach:

[System.IO.File]::ReadAllText(“c:\somefile.txt“)