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

public List ReadTextFile(string FP)
{

    string inputString;
    List List = new List();

    try
    {
        StreamReader streamReader = File.OpenText(FP.Trim()); // FP is the filepath of TNS file

        inputString = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
        string[] temp = inputString.Split(new string[] {Environment.NewLine},StringSplitOptions.None);

        for (int i = 0; i < temp.Length ;i++ )
        {
            if (temp[i].Trim(' ', '(').Contains("DESCRIPTION"))
            {                   
                string DS = temp[i-1].Trim('=', ' ');
                List.Add(DS);
            }             

        }
        streamReader.Close();
    }
    catch (Exception EX)
    {
    }


    return List;

}