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c#splittext-parsing

Reading a textfile and splitter on delimiter

I have a textfile with the format:

FieldName1: value\t

FieldName2: value\t

FieldName3: \t

FieldName4: value\t

FieldName5:

value value value value
value value value value
value value value value
value value value value
\t

FieldName6: value\t

Field values have the delimiter '\t' to identify the end of a field definition. In the example, there are two special cases: an empty value and a value that spans across multiple lines.

Is there a way to read in a textfile and split each element by the delimiter '\t'? I've tried playing around with File.ReadAllLines(filePath) and it just splits the file line by line.

Solution

  • You can split the text in the file with the delimiter \t like this:

    string [] fileds = File.ReadAllText(filePath).Split("\\t");

    Same as the answer above, bu you need to escape the \t .