Reading lines from text file in Bash

[chuckp123]

I need to read a text file line by line using bash. I have it working using the code below, but the problem is that when it won't read in the backslash character (\). These get excluded if I echo the contents in the script or write them to a different file. Does anyone know how to get the backslashes to stay?

cat file.txt | while read line
        do
                        echo "$line"
        done

[chuckp123]

Got it. Had to use the -r option for my read command to get the raw input.