Question

I am trying to import a logfile and display it in a listview in a grid format ( much like excel ). I am wondering what may be the best approach to take with this. Filereader and a data table possibly ? I have not programmed anything like this before. This is a windows form project.

Any advice on the issue would be a great help.

EDIT2:

Example of the logfile:

 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 
 i d   =   1 0 0 1
 P a r a m e t e r   1   =   E N A B L E D
 P a r a m e t e r   2   =   D I S A B L E D
 P a r a m e t e r   3   =   N U L L
 P a r a m e t e r   4   =   N U L L
 P a r a m e t e r   5   =   S U C C E S S  
 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 

This the repeats with different Data.

I would like this to be read in and displayed in a listview under the different headings id, name etc

This application is limited to the use of .NET 3.5 also.

Answer 1

My best guess would be to read your file in one line at a time using a StreamReader and placing the data in a DataGridView.

Edit: The following code works for me on a project targeted to .Net 2.0 and assumes the name of your DataGridView is dataGridView1

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(@"C:\Users\jdudley\file.txt");
// Will be incremented every time ID shows up so it must started at -1 so we don't
// try and start inserting at 1.
int rowIndex = -1;
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
    string line = reader.ReadLine();
    string[] parsedLine = line.Split(new char[] { '=' });
    if(!this.dataGridView1.Columns.Contains(parsedLine[0]))
    {
        dataGridView1.Columns.Add(parsedLine[0],parsedLine[0]);
    }
    if (parsedLine[0].Trim().Equals("id"))
    {
        rowIndex++;
        dataGridView1.Rows.Add();
    }
    dataGridView1[parsedLine[0], rowIndex].Value = parsedLine[1];
}