Topic: c# reading file

[Andrea]

Hi all,

I'm new to C# and i'm trying to read a simple TXT file containing the "¦" symbol:

eg: test.txt
*line1 0¦4¦true¦open¦6¦72¦24¦


this is my code

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            int counter = 0;
            string FILELINE;
           

            // Read the file and display it line by line.
            System.IO.StreamReader file =
                new System.IO.StreamReader(@"c:\test.txt");
            while ((FILELINE = file.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                //System.Console.WriteLine(line);
                  TAB1_listBox_file.Items.Add(FILELINE);

                counter++;
            }

            file.Close();
result = *line1 04trueopen67224

any idea why ?

Also, if you know any good forum for C#....
please let me know....thanks.

[LE]

Andrea;

As far as I know, you need to read about "Regular Expressions in C#", there are plenty of sites devoted to C# with a lot of tutorials, there is one here the .NET Forum in TheSwamp.

Place this in your class:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

HTH

[LE]

Here is a little function, that might help or at least to have another approach, it is super basic and no error control was used:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

[CommandMethod("ReadFile2")]
public void ReadFile2()
{
string sFileName = "c:\\test.txt";
FileStream stream = null;
stream = File.OpenRead(sFileName);
byte[] text = new byte[stream.Length];
stream.Read(text, 0, (int)stream.Length);
stream.Close();
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
string content = encoding.GetString(text);
// string pattern = "[*]";
string pat = @"\w+\b-\b\w+"; // this will find the word characters between "-"...
// for some reason I cannot get the split to work where this character is used: "¦", I need to read more about expressions
MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(content,pat);
foreach(Match match in matches)
{
CommandLinePrompts.Message(match.Value);
}
}

Hope that helps, I am also learning C#

[LE]

Here is another function:

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[CommandMethod("ReadFile")]
public void ReadFile()
{
FileStream file = new FileStream("c://test.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read);
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(file);
string s = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
file.Close();
CommandLinePrompts.Message(s);
}

But, it simple reads the whole file.... does not take in account the finding of an specific text line....

[LE]

And another, but requires more homework...

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[CommandMethod("ReadFile3")]
public void ReadFile3()
{
string sFileName = "c:\\test.txt";
FileStream stream = null;
stream = File.OpenRead(sFileName);
byte[] text = new byte[stream.Length];
stream.Read(text, 0, (int)stream.Length);
stream.Close();
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
string content = encoding.GetString(text);
string [] split = content.Split(new Char [] {'*', '¦'});
foreach (string s in split)
{
if (s.Trim() != "")
//{
//CommandLinePrompts.Message("\n");
CommandLinePrompts.Message(s);
//}
}
}


[LE]

And another.... I noticed that the special character is ignored (as this was your first concern/question)

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[CommandMethod("ReadFile4")]
public void ReadFile4()
{
FileStream file = new FileStream("c://test.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read);
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(file);
string sLine,str,sSpace = "\n";
do
{
sLine = reader.ReadLine();
str = string.Concat(sLine,sSpace);
CommandLinePrompts.Message(str);
} while (sLine != null);

reader.Close();
file.Close();
}

It returns in the AutoCAD command line:

Command: readfile4
This is only a test
Of a text line
*line1 04trueopen67224
*line1 04-trueopen67224
*line1 04true-open67224

Must be an appropriate way to read those characters.... ¦

[LE]

Also, to the moderators, could be possible to move this topic into the .NET, since it is related to C# language and might get more responses there... I think


Thanks.

[Glenn R]

In case anybody else is wondering as it doesn't seem Andrea will put up his solution:

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namespace ConsoleApplication5 {
class Program {
static void Main(string[ ] args) {
StreamReader sr = null;
try {
sr = new StreamReader(@"C:\Temp\Test\Test.txt", Encoding.UTF7, false);

while (sr.Peek() > -1) {
string input = sr.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(input);
}

} catch (System.Exception ex) {
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
} finally {
if (sr != null)
sr.Close();
}
}
}
}

Cheers,
Glenn.