Question

I have a Text File (Sorry, I’m not allowed to work on XML files :(), and it includes customer records. Each text file looks like:

Account_ID: 98734BLAH9873
User Name: something_85
First Name: ILove
Last Name: XML
Age: 209

etc… And I need to be able to use LINQ to get the data from these text files and just store them in memory.

I have seen many Linq to SQL, Linq to BLAH but nothing for Linq to Text. Can someone please help me out abit?

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use the code like that

var pairs = File.ReadAllLines("filename.txt")
    .Select(line => line.Split(':'))
    .ToDictionary(cells => cells[0].Trim(), cells => cells[1].Trim())

Or use the .NET 4.0 File.ReadLines() method to return an IEnumerable, which is useful for processing big text files.