.Net CSVHelper accessing all of the records

Question

I am a bit confused with how to access all of the records. It will not let me run a foreach() through the items and it only returns the first one as an object. I am aware it says this in the documentation. But I am not sure what to do about it.

The GetRecords<T> method will return an IEnumerable<T> that will yield 
records. What this means is that only a single record is returned at a time 
as you iterate the records. That also means that only a small portion of the 
file is read into memory. Be careful though. If you do anything that 
executes a LINQ projection, such as calling .ToList(), the entire file will 
be read into memory. CsvReader is forward only, so if you want to run any 
LINQ queries against your data, you'll have to pull the whole file into 
memory. Just know that is what you're doing.

Here is my code

protected void WatcherCreated(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
    {

        Console.WriteLine("Watcher Created");
        string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(_watchedFolder, "*.csv");
        foreach (string file in files)
        {
            using (var reader = new StreamReader(file))
            using (var csv = new CsvReader(reader))
            {
                try
                {
                    csv.Read();
                    var records = csv.GetRecord<InputCsv>();


                }
                catch (CsvHelper.HeaderValidationException exception)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(exception);
                    throw;
                }




            }
        }
    }

The records is the supposed IEnumerable.. I eventually want to use the object o parse it into json using Newtonsoft.Json

It doesn't even offer me a .ToList() option after the csv.GetRecords();

Answer 1

You have a missing letter on the function call:

var records = csv.GetRecord<InputCsv>();

You should be calling GetRecords - note the extra s.

var records = csv.GetRecords<InputCsv>();