Question

I need to read text data from file, where there are different types of data in every line.
So, I created a one big class named subject. My data looks something like this:

Subject name      M1   M2   M3   M4
Subject1           5    7    8    3
Old Subject        1    2    5    9

The main question is, if it is possible to read all the data in line 1 for instance and assign it to proper fields, like SubjName = Subject1, M1 = 5, M2 = 7, M3 = 8 and so on, WITHOUT using substrings? (something like stream >> Subject.SubjName; stream >> Subject.M1 = 5 and so on in C++).

Here’s the code that I have.

internal void Read()
{
        TextReader tr = new StreamReader("Data.txt");
        string line;
        while ((line = tr.ReadLine()) != null)    //read till end of line
        {
            tr.ReadLine();    //Skips the first line


        }

Thanks in advance

EDIT: To clarify, I’d prefer that fields are delimited.

Answer 1

Something like the solution in this question might help, but obviously use a tab delimeter (\t)

CSV to object model mapping

 from line in File.ReadAllLines(fileName).Skip(1)
    let columns = line.Split(',')
    select new
    {
      Plant = columns[0],
      Material = int.Parse(columns[1]),
      Density = float.Parse(columns[2]),
      StorageLocation = int.Parse(columns[3])
    }