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July 5, 2012 19:09
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Handy linqpad template for manipulating files
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void Main() | |
{ | |
string fileName = ""; //Whatever the full path to the file in question is | |
var lines = ReadLines(""); | |
// Often I apply some filtering/modifying as follows: | |
//.Skip(1) //If you need to skip some number of lines | |
//.Split('\t') //Or ',', or whatever, but only if you want | |
//.GroupBy(line => line[0]) //Again only if you want | |
string.Join("\n", lines.Select(TransformLine)).Dump(); | |
} | |
public static string TransformLine(string[] line) | |
{ | |
//Obviously you'll do something useful here. | |
return string.Join(",", line); | |
} | |
public static IEnumerable<string> ReadLines(string source) | |
{ | |
using (var reader = new StreamReader(source)) | |
{ | |
string line; | |
while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null) | |
{ | |
yield return line; | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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