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POparsing multi sections of a text file C#
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copied!<p>First let me start by thanking you all for being part of this site, I have already gained so much helpful information from it. including some basic parsing of text files in to Arrays, but i now want to go a step further. </p> <p>I have a text file that looks some thing like this </p> <pre><code>Start Section 1 - foods apple bannana pear pineapple orange end section 1 Start section 2 - animals dog cat horse cow end section 2 </code></pre> <p>what I want to do is using a single read of the file copy the data from section 1 in to an array called "foods" and section 2 in to and array called "animals"</p> <p>now I can get it to work by using a new loop for each section, closing and reopening the file each time, looping till I find the section I want and creating the array. </p> <p>But I was thinking there must be a way to read each section in to a separate array in one go saving time. </p> <p>so my current code is </p> <pre><code>List<string> typel = new List<string>(); using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("types.txt")) // opens file using streamreader { string line; // reads line by line in to varible "line" while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null) // loops untill it reaches an empty line { typel.Add(line); // adds the line to the list varible "typel" } } Console.WriteLine(typel[1]); // test to see if list is beeing incremented string[] type = typel.ToArray(); //converts the list to a true array Console.WriteLine(type.Length); // returns the number of elements of the array created. </code></pre> <p>which is for a simple text file with no sections just list of values, using list seemed a good way to deal with unknown lengths of arrays. </p> <p>I was also wondering how to deal with the first value. </p> <p>for example if i do </p> <pre><code>while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != Start Section 1 - foods) { } while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != end Section 1) { foods.Add(line); } ... .... </code></pre> <p>I end up with the "start Section 1 - foods" as one of the array elements. I can remove it with code but is there an easy way to avoid this so only the list items get populated? </p> <p>Cheers and once again thanks for all the help. Its great to be getting back in to programming after many many years. </p> <p>Aaron</p>

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