Question

So I am writing a C# console application. I have a text file that I want to send to a database. The plan is to have multiple text files and only one insert. Everything seems to go fine for the first line. Once I get to the 2nd line the array thinks it only has a length of 2.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace UKImporter
{
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string[] lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"C:\out\output.txt");
        System.Console.WriteLine("Contents of writeLines2.txt =:");

        foreach (string line in lines)
        {
            string sellername, sku, date1, quantity1, date2, asin, date3, date4, FNSKU;
            char[] tabs = { '\t', '\t', '\t', '\t', '\t', '\t', '\t', '\t',  };
            string[] words = line.Split(tabs);
            sellername = words[0];
            sku = words[1];
            date1 = words[2];
            quantity1 = words[3];
            date2 = words[4];
            asin = words[5];
            date3 = words[6];
            date4 = words[7];
            FNSKU = words[8];
            Console.WriteLine("\t" + line);
            UKDataBLL u = new UKDataBLL();
            //u.AddToDatabase(sku, DateTime.Now, Convert.ToInt16(quantity1), DateTime.Now, asin, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now, FNSKU);

            foreach (string s in words)
            {
                System.Console.WriteLine(s);
            }

        }

        // Keep the console window open in debug mode.
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
        System.Console.ReadKey();

    }
}
}

Edit Here is some text of the file

A2LQ9QFN82X636 ACD_fivecrowns 6/1/11 5:30 0 6/1/11 5:30 B00000IV35 6/1/11 5:30 6/1/11 5:30 X0000PGTT9

A2LQ9QFN82X63 ACD_caylus_magna_carta 6/1/11 5:30 0 6/1/11 5:30 B000N3SOUM 6/1/11 5:30 6/1/11 5:30 X0000PGM23

A2LQ9QFN82X63 AMX_JrSpaceHelmet-LBL 6/1/11 5:30 0 6/1/11 5:30 B0008F6WMM 6/1/11 5:30 6/1/11 5:30 X0000PQBUL

Answer 1

Using the above code, I created a simple output file step that met your intended structure and your code does correctly parse the file out. Your issue appears to be based on the data

    string[] content = new string[] { "a\tb\tc\td\te\tf\tg\th\ti", "a\tb\tc\td\te\tf\tg\th\ti" };
    System.IO.File.WriteAllLines(@"C:\sandbox\output.txt", content);