Discerning what is a space in string..?

[Robert Hodan]

So, I'm trying to make a method that takes an input stream (from a text file), and churns out each word into it's own string, and sticks it into a list. According to my logic this should work, but (obviously) it doesn't. Any help would be appreciated :)

private void countWords()
        {
            bool isSpace;
            count = 0;
            //Will run as long as the files is real.
            if (textFile != null)
            {
                string line;
                StreamReader lines = new StreamReader(textFile);
                while ((line = lines.ReadLine()) != null)
                {
                    //Makes sure the line isn't blank
                    if (line.Trim().Length != 0)
                    {
                        isSpace = false;
                        count++;
                        //Adds to the count and adds to the list
                        while(!isSpace)
                        {
                            if (string.Compare(line, blank) != 0)
                            {
                                lines.Read();
                                line = line + lines;
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                isSpace = true;
                            }
                        }
                        randomOrder.Add(line);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

[PsychoCoder]

Can you define "This should work but it doesn't" please. Do you get an error? What does it do compared to what you need it to do.

[Allwin Jeba]

assign a space to a constant = " " and use that constant to find in your string. eg.

s.ToString().IndexOf(" ").
if you get any index there.. it means there is space..

[Robert Hodan]

@Richard McCutchen
What I'm trying to do is compare a string containing a space, to what I think (presuming I'm not using the streamreader wrong) should be the next character on a line. If the next character on the line is NOT a space, it adds it to the current string. When the string does hit a space, it adds the current word to a list, and continues, until it runs out of words.
However;
It freezes, gets trapped inside of this loop:

while(!isSpace)
     {
          if (string.Compare(line, blank) != 0)
          {
               lines.Read();
               line = line + lines;
          }
          else
          {
              isSpace = true;
          }
}