get the length of fields available when using csv helper

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Hii ,

I am using csv helper to retrive my data from csv file ,

but before that i want to add into database , i just want to check wether i have all columns properly or not into that csv file , so i want to check number of coulmns count

how can i do that

C#

 using (System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader(Server.MapPath(filepath)))
                        {
                            //Csv reader reads the stream
                            CsvReader csvread = new CsvReader(file);
                            var recs = csvread.GetRecords<dynamic>().ToArray();
                            int length = recs.Length;
                            while (csvread.Read())
                            {   
                                var intField = csvread.GetField<string>("HeaderName");
                                var stringField = csvread.GetField<string>(1);
                            }
}

Posted 13-Aug-15 3:03am

Torakami

Updated 13-Aug-15 20:57pm

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Torakami 13-Aug-15 9:12am

My above code is not giving me proper count of columns availble into uploaded csv file

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Torakami · Answer 1 · 2015-08-13T20:56:00

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using (System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader(Server.MapPath(filepath)))
                        {
                            //Csv reader reads the stream
                            CsvReader csvread = new CsvReader(file);
                            while (csvread.Read())
                            {
                                int count = csvread.FieldHeaders.Count();
                                if (count == 55)
                                {
                                    DataRow dr = myExcelTable.NewRow();
                                    if (csvread.GetField<string>("FirstName") != null)
                                    {
                                        dr["FirstName"] = csvread.GetField<string>("FirstName"); ;
                                    }
                                    else
                                    {
                                        dr["FirstName"] = "";
                                    }

                                    if (csvread.GetField<string>("LastName") != null)
                                    {
                                        dr["LastName"] = csvread.GetField<string>("LastName"); ;
                                    }
                                    else
                                    {
                                        dr["LastName"] = "";
                                    }
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    lblMessage.Visible = true;
                                    lblMessage.Text = "Columns are not in specified format.";
                                    lblMessage.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
                                    return;
                                }
                            }
                            }