Importing Data and assigning it to a variable

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Hello, I am trying to import a set of data from a text file that is approximately and assign one column of this data to a variable. Has anyone done anything like this?

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Look into fileIO a bit. It gives functions, like opening a file, reading one line/character, etc.

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check out System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@“path\filename.ext”) this will read the data in and then using String.Split to convert each line to a string[ ] array. Then the string[0] should be first column. There are a lot of examples if u search bing or google.

Have fun

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You should also look at deceloper rules, there’s one rule, that everytime, you want to post something, search it on google, if you still can’t solve the problem, post.

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heres a sample using List, not tested didnt have time sorry

public List FileToListOfString(string FileName,int colIndex)
{

List values = new List(); //creates a string list
string[ ] strLines = File.ReadAllLines(FileName); //strLines holds each line of the file

foreach (string strLine in strLines) //for each line in the loaded lines strLines get the column passed in via colIndex
{
//assuming its a comma seperated file else replace ‘,’ with what ever char your data is split by ie ‘;’ or ‘|’ etc
values.Add(strLine.Split(‘,’)[colIndex].ToString());
}

return values;
}

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MagicZelda, you should use code tags, they are under import/code on the comment toolbar.

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sorry was late and ive never put code up before lol. Will remember for next time