Turned the primes document into an embedded resource.

Author: nbitounis

DataStructures/Common/PrimesList.cs

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Reflection;
+using System.Text;
 
 namespace DataStructures.Common
 {
@@ -22,7 +23,6 @@ public sealed class PrimesList
 
         //
         // INSTANCE VARIABLES
-        private static string _primesDocPath = string.Empty;
         private readonly static List<int> _primes = new List<int>();
 
         // Picked the HashPrime to be (101) because it is prime, and if the ‘hashSize - 1’ is not a multiple of this HashPrime, which is 
@@ -64,10 +64,9 @@ public static PrimesList Instance
         /// </summary>
         private static void _initializeData()
         {
-            _primesDocPath = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(PrimesList).GetTypeInfo().Assembly.Location), @"Data/PrimesDocument_10K.csv");
-            string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(_primesDocPath);
+			string[] lines = _readResource("DataStructures.Data.PrimesDocument_10K.csv");
 
-            foreach (var line in lines)
+			foreach (var line in lines)
             {
                 // Split the line by commas and convert the collection to a list.
                 var numbersAsStrings = line.Split(',').ToList<string>();
@@ -209,6 +208,24 @@ public void CopyTo(int[] array, int index = 0)
             }
         }
 
-    }
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Reads an embedded resource as a text file.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        private static string[] _readResource(string resourceName)
+        {
+	        try
+	        {
+		        using (var stream = typeof(PrimesList).GetTypeInfo().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName))
+		        using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to read resource"), Encoding.UTF8))
+			        return reader.ReadToEnd().Split("\r\n");
+	        }
+	        catch (Exception ex)
+	        {
+		        throw new Exception($"Failed to read resource {resourceName}", ex);
+	        }
+        }
+
+	}
 
 }

DataStructures/DataStructures.csproj

@@ -4,14 +4,8 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <Content Include="Data\PrimesDocument_10K.csv">
-      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
-    </Content>
-  </ItemGroup>
-
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <None Update="Data\PrimesDocument_10K.csv">
-      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
-    </None>
+    <EmbeddedResource Include="Data\PrimesDocument_10K.csv">
+      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Never</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+    </EmbeddedResource>
   </ItemGroup>
 </Project>