I have a text file which contains following
Name address phone salary
Jack Boston 923-433-666 10000
all the fields are delimited by the spaces.
I am trying to write a C# program, this program should read a this text file and then store it in the formatted array.
My Array is as follows:
address
salary
When ever I am trying to look in google I get is how to read and write a text file in C#.
Thank you very much for your time.
You can use File.ReadAllLines method to load the file into an array. You can then use a for loop to loop through the lines, and the string type's Split method to separate each line into another array, and store the values in your formatted array.
Something like:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var lines = File.ReadAllLines("filename.txt");
for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++)
{
var fields = lines[i].Split(' ');
}
}
Do not reinvent the wheel. Can use for example fast csv reader where you can specify a delimeter you need.
There are plenty others on internet like that, just search and pick that one which fits your needs.
This answer assumes you don't know how much whitespace is between each string in a given line.
// Method to split a line into a string array separated by whitespace
private string[] Splitter(string input)
{
return Regex.Split(intput, @"\W+");
}
// Another code snippet to read the file and break the lines into arrays
// of strings and store the arrays in a list.
List<String[]> arrayList = new List<String[]>();
using (FileStream fStream = File.OpenRead(@"C:\SomeDirectory\SomeFile.txt"))
{
using(TextReader reader = new StreamReader(fStream))
{
string line = "";
while(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(line = reader.ReadLine()))
{
arrayList.Add(Splitter(line));
}
}
}
