Reading a text file and inserting information into a new object

Question

So I have a text file with information in the following format, with the name, email, and phone number.

Bill Molan, [email protected], 612-789-7538
Greg Hanson, [email protected], 651-368-4558
Zoe Hall, [email protected], 952-778-4322
Henry Sinn, [email protected], 651-788-9634
Brittany Hudson, [email protected], 612-756-4486

When my program starts, I want to read this file and make each row into a new Person(), which I will eventually add to a list. I am wanting to read each line, and then use the comma to separate each string to put into the constructor of Person(), which is a basic class:

public PersonEntry(string n, string e, string p)
{
    Name = n;
    Email = e;
    Phone = p;
}

I have done some looking and I think that using a streamreader is going to work for reading the text file, but I'm not really sure where to go from here.

Answer 1

You can use the following method:

 

    string line;
    List listOfPersons=new List();

    // Read the file and display it line by line.
    System.IO.StreamReader file = 
        new System.IO.StreamReader(@"c:\yourFile.txt");
    while((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
    {
        string[] words = line.Split(',');
        listOfPersons.Add(new Person(words[0],words[1],words[2]));
    }

    file.Close();