Parsing tnsnames.ora in Visual C# 2008

Question

How I parse tnsnames.ora file using Visual C# (Visual Studio 2008 Express edition) to get the tnsnames ? For instance, my tnsnames.ora file contains

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Answer 1

First of all, you will need the syntax rules for this file.

There is probably a hack for this, but I would personally go with a full parser, like ANTLR combined with the proper grammar (a complete list of ANTLR grammars can be found here).