Read random line from a file? c#

by 
string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(...); //i hope that the file is not too big
Random rand = new Random();
return lines[rand.Next(lines.Length)];

Another (and maybe better) option is to have the first line of the file contain the number of records in it and then you don’t have to read all the file.

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