Configuration file parser for configurations files that follow the format: [section]<EOL> parameter = value<EOL> ;comment<EOL>

ConfigParser.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
namespace FileReader
{
    class Program
    {
        static string section = "";
        static string parameter = "";
        static string value = "";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using ( StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("config.txt"))
            {
                String line;
                while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
                {
                    line = line.Trim();             // leading and trailing white space
                    if (line == "") continue;       // skip empty lines
                    if (line[0] == ';') continue;   // skip comments
 
                    line = Regex.Replace(line, @"\s+", ""); // remove spaces
 
                    if (line[0] == '[')             // this indicates a section
                    {
                        section = line.Substring(1, line.Length - 2);
                        Console.WriteLine("Section: " + section);
                    }else{                          // found a parameter
                        int pos = line.IndexOf('=');
                        if (pos == -1) continue;    // if no '=', skip line
                        parameter = line.Substring(0, pos);
                        value = line.Substring(pos + 1);
                        Console.WriteLine("\tParameter: " + parameter);
                        Console.WriteLine("\tValue: " + value);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}