TextFieldParser equivalent in .NET?

Question

Is there a modern .NET equivalent to the TextFieldParser class in VB6? Performance is a lot lower than a simple String.Split()

Answer 1

I have compared performance with that code: https://gist.github.com/Ruszrok/7861319

I used an input file with about 1 000 000 records separated with spaces. I tried five experiments.

• String.Split avg time: 291 ms
• Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser avg time: 15843 ms

You can use the Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser class. Reference Microsoft.VisualBasic. Sample in gist.