Question

I have this text file that contains approximately 22 000 lines, with each line looking like this:

12A4 (Text)

So it’s in the format 4-letter/number (Hexdecimal) and then text. Sometimes there is more than one value in text, separated by a comma:
A34d (Text, Optional)

Is there any efficient way to search for the Hex and then return the first text in the parentheses? Would it be much more effective if I stored this data in SQLite?

Answer 1

Example using substring and split.

        string value = "A34d (Text, Optional)";

        string hex = value.Substring(0, 4);
        string text = value.Split('(')[1];

        if (text.Contains(','))
            text = text.Substring(0, text.IndexOf(','));
        else
            text = text.Substring(0, text.Length-1);

For searching use a Dictionary.