CSV Parsing

Question

I am trying to use C# to parse CSV. I used regular expressions to find \",\" and read string if my header counts were equal to my match count.

Now this

Answer 1

FileHelpers supports multiline fields.

You could parse files like these:

a,"line 1
line 2
line 3"
b,"line 1
line 2
line 3"

Here is the datatype declaration:

[DelimitedRecord(",")]
public class MyRecord
{ 
 public string field1;
 [FieldQuoted('"', QuoteMode.OptionalForRead, MultilineMode.AllowForRead)]
 public string field2;
}

Here is the usage:

static void Main()
{
 FileHelperEngine engine = new FileHelperEngine(typeof(MyRecord));
 MyRecord[] res = engine.ReadFile("file.csv");       
}