Looking for C# equivalent of scanf

Question

I used to code in C language in the past and I found the scanf function very useful. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent in C#.

I am using using it to

Answer 1

Although this looks sort of crude it does get the job done:

// Create the stream reader
sr = new StreamReader("myFile.txt");

// Read it
srRec = sr.ReadLine();

// Replace multiple spaces with one space
String rec1 = srRec.Replace("          ", " ");
String rec2 = rec1.Replace("         ", " ");
String rec3 = rec2.Replace("        ", " ");
String rec4 = rec3.Replace("       ", " ");
String rec5 = rec4.Replace("      ", " ");
String rec6 = rec5.Replace("     ", " ");
String rec7 = rec6.Replace("    ", " ");
String rec8 = rec7.Replace("   ", " ");
String rec9 = rec8.Replace("  ", " ");

// Finally split the string into an array of strings with Split
String[] srVals = rec9.Split(' ');

You can then use the array srVals as individual variables from the record.