Converting a csv file to json using C#

Question

I was wondering if someone\'s written a utility to convert a CSV file to Json using C#. From a previous question on stackoverflow, I\'m aware of this nice utility - https://

Answer 1

If you can use System.Web.Extensions, something like this could work:

var csv = new List(); // or, List
var lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"C:\file.txt");
foreach (string line in lines)
    csv.Add(line.Split(',')); // or, populate YourClass          
string json = new 
    System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(csv);

You might have more complex parsing requirements for the csv file and you might have a class that encapsulates the data from one line, but the point is that you can serialize to JSON with one line of code once you have a Collection of lines.