Importing CSV data into C# classes

Question

I know how to read and display a line of a .csv file. Now I would like to parse that file, store its contents in arrays, and use those arrays as values for some classes I cr

Answer 1

Linq also has a solution for this and you can define your output as either a List or an Array. In the example below there is a class that as the definition of the data and data types.

var modelData = File.ReadAllLines(dataFile)
                   .Skip(1)
                   .Select(x => x.Split(','))
                   .Select(dataRow => new TestModel
                   {
                       Column1 = dataRow[0],
                       Column2 = dataRow[1],
                       Column3 = dataRow[2],
                       Column4 = dataRow[3]
                   }).ToList(); // Or you can use .ToArray()