Question

I need to parse third party text file in the following format

WE BUY  : 10 000.00 USD                      
VALUE   : 281210
RATE    : 30.2600

So the general pattern is

TAG,some separator,:,someseparator,VALUE

Let;s say i started with File.ReadAllLines so I am dealing with individual lines.

What is the best way to parse values?

UPDATE

I don’t have any documentation for the format but let’s say that it is position-based.

1) “:” is always 9th charcter in the string,
2) VALUE is 11th character.
3) Unused spaces are filled with space character.

Let’s talk about that format.

UPDATE 2

I am thinking about if RegEx is better here? For instance let’s say I have a subtask
find

RATE : 30.2600

in the whole text and extract 30.2600 given that is starts with 11th character

Answer 1

For Each line:

   string[]  parts = line.Split(':');
   // assert parts.Length == 2
   string tag = parts[0].Trim();
   string[] values = parts[1].Split(' ', SplitOptions.NoDupes);  // or ','