How to parse a text file with C#

Question

By text formatting I meant something more complicated.

At first I began manually adding the 5000 lines from the text file I\'m asking this question for,into my proje

Answer 1

You could do something like:

using (TextReader rdr = OpenYourFile()) {
    string line;
    while ((line = rdr.ReadLine()) != null) {
        string[] fields = line.Split('\t'); // THIS LINE DOES THE MAGIC
        int theInt = Convert.ToInt32(fields[1]);
    }
}

The reason you didn't find relevant result when searching for 'formatting' is that the operation you are performing is called 'parsing'.