diff --git a/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Workspace/ScriptFile.cs b/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Workspace/ScriptFile.cs
index e8cb7aac1..4851af99c 100644
--- a/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Workspace/ScriptFile.cs
+++ b/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Workspace/ScriptFile.cs
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ public class ScriptFile
     {
         #region Private Fields
 
+        private static readonly string[] s_newlines = new []
+        {
+            "\r\n",
+            "\n"
+        };
+
         private Token[] scriptTokens;
         private Version powerShellVersion;
 
@@ -167,8 +173,8 @@ public ScriptFile(
                   new StringReader(initialBuffer),
                   powerShellVersion)
         {
-
         }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Creates a new ScriptFile instance with the specified filepath.
         /// </summary>
@@ -185,7 +191,6 @@ public ScriptFile(
                   File.ReadAllText(filePath),
                   powerShellVersion)
         {
-
         }
 
         #endregion
@@ -215,26 +220,7 @@ internal static List<string> GetLinesInternal(string text)
                 throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(text));
             }
 
-            // ReadLine returns null immediately for empty string, so special case it.
-            if (text.Length == 0)
-            {
-                return new List<string> {string.Empty};
-            }
-
-            using (var reader = new StringReader(text))
-            {
-                // 50 is a rough guess for typical average line length, this saves some list
-                // resizes in the common case and does not hurt meaningfully if we're wrong.
-                var list = new List<string>(text.Length / 50);
-                string line;
-
-                while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
-                {
-                    list.Add(line);
-                }
-
-                return list;
-            }
+            return new List<string>(text.Split(s_newlines, StringSplitOptions.None));
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/test/PowerShellEditorServices.Test/Session/ScriptFileTests.cs b/test/PowerShellEditorServices.Test/Session/ScriptFileTests.cs
index 4d8ec3f80..adfc2727e 100644
--- a/test/PowerShellEditorServices.Test/Session/ScriptFileTests.cs
+++ b/test/PowerShellEditorServices.Test/Session/ScriptFileTests.cs
@@ -255,26 +255,35 @@ private void AssertFileChange(
 
     public class ScriptFileGetLinesTests
     {
-        private ScriptFile scriptFile;
+        private const string TestString_NoTrailingNewline = "Line One\r\nLine Two\r\nLine Three\r\nLine Four\r\nLine Five";
+
+        private const string TestString_TrailingNewline = TestString_NoTrailingNewline + "\r\n";
+
+        private static readonly string[] s_newLines = new string[] { "\r\n" };
+
+        private static readonly string[] s_testStringLines_noTrailingNewline = TestString_NoTrailingNewline.Split(s_newLines, StringSplitOptions.None);
+
+        private static readonly string[] s_testStringLines_trailingNewline = TestString_TrailingNewline.Split(s_newLines, StringSplitOptions.None);
+
+        private ScriptFile _scriptFile_trailingNewline;
+
+        private ScriptFile _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline;
 
-        private const string TestString = "Line One\r\nLine Two\r\nLine Three\r\nLine Four\r\nLine Five";
-        private readonly string[] TestStringLines =
-            TestString.Split(
-                new string[] { "\r\n" },
-                StringSplitOptions.None);
 
         public ScriptFileGetLinesTests()
         {
-            this.scriptFile =
-                ScriptFileChangeTests.CreateScriptFile(
-                    "Line One\r\nLine Two\r\nLine Three\r\nLine Four\r\nLine Five\r\n");
+            _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline = ScriptFileChangeTests.CreateScriptFile(
+                TestString_NoTrailingNewline);
+
+            _scriptFile_trailingNewline = ScriptFileChangeTests.CreateScriptFile(
+                TestString_TrailingNewline);
         }
 
         [Fact]
         public void CanGetWholeLine()
         {
             string[] lines =
-                this.scriptFile.GetLinesInRange(
+                _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline.GetLinesInRange(
                     new BufferRange(5, 1, 5, 10));
 
             Assert.Equal(1, lines.Length);
@@ -285,17 +294,17 @@ public void CanGetWholeLine()
         public void CanGetMultipleWholeLines()
         {
             string[] lines =
-                this.scriptFile.GetLinesInRange(
+                _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline.GetLinesInRange(
                     new BufferRange(2, 1, 4, 10));
 
-            Assert.Equal(TestStringLines.Skip(1).Take(3), lines);
+            Assert.Equal(s_testStringLines_noTrailingNewline.Skip(1).Take(3), lines);
         }
 
         [Fact]
         public void CanGetSubstringInSingleLine()
         {
             string[] lines =
-                this.scriptFile.GetLinesInRange(
+                _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline.GetLinesInRange(
                     new BufferRange(4, 3, 4, 8));
 
             Assert.Equal(1, lines.Length);
@@ -306,7 +315,7 @@ public void CanGetSubstringInSingleLine()
         public void CanGetEmptySubstringRange()
         {
             string[] lines =
-                this.scriptFile.GetLinesInRange(
+                _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline.GetLinesInRange(
                     new BufferRange(4, 3, 4, 3));
 
             Assert.Equal(1, lines.Length);
@@ -324,7 +333,7 @@ public void CanGetSubstringInMultipleLines()
             };
 
             string[] lines =
-                this.scriptFile.GetLinesInRange(
+                _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline.GetLinesInRange(
                     new BufferRange(2, 6, 4, 9));
 
             Assert.Equal(expectedLines, lines);
@@ -341,23 +350,29 @@ public void CanGetRangeAtLineBoundaries()
             };
 
             string[] lines =
-                this.scriptFile.GetLinesInRange(
+                _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline.GetLinesInRange(
                     new BufferRange(2, 9, 4, 1));
 
             Assert.Equal(expectedLines, lines);
         }
 
         [Fact]
-        public void CanSplitLines()
+        public void CanSplitLines_NoTrailingNewline()
+        {
+            Assert.Equal(s_testStringLines_noTrailingNewline, _scriptFile_noTrailingNewline.FileLines);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void CanSplitLines_TrailingNewline()
         {
-            Assert.Equal(TestStringLines, scriptFile.FileLines);
+            Assert.Equal(s_testStringLines_trailingNewline, _scriptFile_trailingNewline.FileLines);
         }
 
         [Fact]
         public void CanGetSameLinesWithUnixLineBreaks()
         {
-            var unixFile = ScriptFileChangeTests.CreateScriptFile(TestString.Replace("\r\n", "\n"));
-            Assert.Equal(scriptFile.FileLines, unixFile.FileLines);
+            var unixFile = ScriptFileChangeTests.CreateScriptFile(TestString_NoTrailingNewline.Replace("\r\n", "\n"));
+            Assert.Equal(_scriptFile_noTrailingNewline.FileLines, unixFile.FileLines);
         }
 
         [Fact]