Question

My program reads a file which has thousands of lines of something like this below
“Timestamp”,”LiveStandby”,”Total1″,”Total2″,”Total3″, etc..
each line is different
What is the best way to split by , and delete the “” as well as put the values in a list

this is what I have

 while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
  {
     List<string> title_list = new List<string>(line.Split(',')); 
  }

the step above still missing the deletion of the quotes. I can do foreach but that kinda defeat the purpose of having List and Split in just 1 line. What is the best and smart way to do it?

Answer 1

Keeping it simple like this should work:

List<string> strings = new List<string>();
while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null) 
    string.AddRange(line.Replace("\"").split(',').AsEnumerable());