Question

I read a file from the file system and FTP it to an FTP server. I now have a request to skip the first line (it’s a CSV with header info). I think I can somehow do this with the Offset of the stream.Read method (or the write method) but I am not sure how to translate the byte array offset from a single line.

How would I calculate the offset to tell it to only read from the 2nd line of the file?

Thanks

// Read the file to be uploaded into a byte array
        stream = File.OpenRead(currentQueuePathAndFileName);
        var buffer = new byte[stream.Length];
        stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        stream.Close();

        // Get the stream for the request and write the byte array to it
        var reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
        reqStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        reqStream.Close();
        return request;

Answer 1

You should use File.ReadAllLines. It returns array of strings. Then just strArray.Skip(1) will return you all lines except of first.

UPDATE

Here is the code:

var stringArray = File.ReadAllLines(fileName);
if (stringArray.Length > 1)
{
   stringArray = stringArray.Skip(1).ToArray();
   var reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
   reqStream.Write(stringArray, 0, stringArray.Length);
   reqStream.Close();       
}