How to parse a text file with C#

Question

By text formatting I meant something more complicated.

At first I began manually adding the 5000 lines from the text file I\'m asking this question for,into my proje

Answer 1

OK, here's what we do: open the file, read it line by line, and split it by tabs. Then we grab the second integer and loop through the rest to find the path.

StreamReader reader = File.OpenText("filename.txt");
string line;
while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null) 
{
    string[] items = line.Split('\t');
    int myInteger = int.Parse(items[1]);   // Here's your integer.

    // Now let's find the path.
    string path = null;
    foreach (string item in items) 
    {
        if (item.StartsWith("item\\") && item.EndsWith(".ddj"))
            path = item;
    }

    // At this point, `myInteger` and `path` contain the values we want
    // for the current line. We can then store those values or print them,
    // or anything else we like.
}