Breaking up a string

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Hi all,

I am reading a txt file from C# app. When it reads the
first line (and then the next etc..) it gets trown into the "line" string.(line
by line)

In my txt file, in the line I seperated the values using the "*"
So I need it to break up the line into seperate values. When it
sees a * it must know it is the end of that value.

So insted of line by line, I want it value by value.

Please any help would be appriciated!!

Here is the code I used:

C#

int counter = 0;
            string line;

            // Read the file and display it line by line.
            System.IO.StreamReader file =
               new System.IO.StreamReader("C:/Users/user/Downloads/test1.txt");
            while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(line);
                counter++;
            }

            file.Close();

Posted 5-Mar-12 23:07pm

Ben Paxton

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-05T23:16:00

Solution 2

Use the String.Split[^] method.

Regards,

Manfred

Posted 5-Mar-12 23:16pm

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

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Shahin Khorshidnia 6-Mar-12 5:19am

Hi, maybe you want to revote my solution.

Shahin Khorshidnia 6-Mar-12 6:08am

+5

Chandrakantt · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-05T23:26:00

I have created a file named 1.txt having value

VB

asd*fasfda*fdaaaaa*aaaaaaaaa
dddddddd*ddd

Now for separating values based on "*" I have used following code

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string text="";
    text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"F:\Test\1.txt");
    string[] Values = text.Split('*');

    int counter = 0;
    while (counter < Values.Length)
    {
        Console.Write(Values[counter++]);
        Console.Write("\n");
    }

}

Shahin Khorshidnia · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-05T23:14:00

Solution 1

Do not use ReadLine()

Read the whole file as a string value. Then separate it by *

C#

System.IO.StreamReader file =
     new System.IO.StreamReader("C:/Users/user/Downloads/test1.txt");


string wholeFile = file.ReadToEnd();

string[] separatedFile = wholeFile.Split('*');

Posted 5-Mar-12 23:14pm

Shahin Khorshidnia

Updated 5-Mar-12 23:17pm

v2

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Ben Paxton 6-Mar-12 5:27am

Thanks all good so far, but I need every value into a seperate string, I am going to use this to save it to SQL DB

Shahin Khorshidnia 6-Mar-12 6:07am

Thanks for accepting.
It's already into separates strings.
I suggested array.