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Asked: 2026-05-14T20:04:32+00:00

I have a text data file which contains text like this: [category.type.group.subgroup] – 2934:10,4388:20,3949:30

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I have a text data file which contains text like this:

"[category.type.group.subgroup]" - "2934:10,4388:20,3949:30"
"[category.type.group.subgroup]" - "2934:10,4388:20,3949:30"
"[category.type.group.subgroup]" - "2934:10,4388:20,3949:30"
"[category.type.group.subgroup]" - "2934:10,4388:20,3949:30"
34i23042034002340 ----- 
"[category.type.group.subgroup]" - "2934:10,4388:20,3949:30"
"[category.type.group.subgroup]" - "2934:10,4388:20,3949:30"
828728382 ------ 3498293485  AAAAAAA

I need the best way to parse the data, specifically I need the category, type, group, subgroup, and numeric values in the quotes. I was thinking of using Regex, but I was wondering if there are other ideas instead of having several IF statements to analize the data?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try the FileHelpers library, it’ll take a little work to set up, but save you a lot of work dealing with all the tricky situations that come up in parsing a file like that. It can handle delimited, fixed-width or record based parsing.

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