Question

What I wanted to do was create a listbox from a delimited text file.

The listbox would populate X # of rows based on the rows of the text file. And the listbox would have 3 columns, each being populated from a specific delimiter. Is this possible in C#? Any starting point would be great!

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Hmm, i need to work on my explaination skills. What i’m wondering is if its possible to make a listbox with column and row lines in it?

Answer 1

I suggest you using ListView (also set details view, and add header with three columns).

private void addLineToListView(String col1Text, String col2Text, String col3Text)
    {
        ListViewItem lvItem;
        if ((lvItem = this.listView1.Items.Add(col1Text)) != null)
        {
            lvItem.SubItems.Add(col2Text);
            lvItem.SubItems.Add(col3Text);
        }
    }

for loading file it’s simple as well:

  private void AggregateTextFileIntoListView(String pathToFile)
  {
      using (TextReader tr = new StreamReader(pathToFile)))
            {
                String line;
                while ((line = tr.ReadLine()) != null)
                {
                    //* let's delimiter be ";".
                    String[] lineParts = line.Split(';');
                    addLineToListView(lineParts[0], lineParts[1], lineParts[2]);
                }

                tr.Close();
            }
 }