Column headers in CSV using fileHelpers library?

Question

Is there a built-in field attribute in the FileHelper library which will add a header row in the final generated CSV?

I have Googled and didn\'t find much info on it

Answer 1

I don't know if you still need this, but here is the way FileHelper is working : To include headers of columns, you need to define a string with headers delimited the same way as your file. For example with '|' as delimiter :

 public const string HeaderLine = @"COLUMN1|COLUMN2|COLUMN3|...";

Then, when calling your engine :

DelimitedFileEngine _engine = new DelimitedFileEngine { HeaderText = HeaderLine };

If you don't want to write the headers, just don't set the HeaderText attribute on the engine.