Place structures in a class

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How to read a text file with unknown number of fields and unknown type of delimiters into a structure and do it in a class?
Examples of files:
The text file has an unknown name and could have from one to unlimited fields.
1. tom,bicycle
2. "Car""building""lady"
3. desk <tab> chair <tab> man <tab> eat
4. for watt John water noway
5. The-Yellow-Brick-road-is-long

I can create a structure but I know the number of fields and the delimiter. Can this be put into a class?

Posted 29-Sep-11 4:59am

Daniel Callahan

Updated 29-Sep-11 5:18am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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E.F. Nijboer · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-29T06:55:00

It is possible to create new properties at runtime and therefor create a specialized class for each list of fields if it was not yet created.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h1zby21a.aspx[^]

There could be a problem that might make it somewhat useless. What I mean is that you create a class definition at runtime with properties that weren't known at compile time. This means that you actually make it quite hard on yourself to use it.

A better solution would probably be a generic class with an index property for reading each field by index and a count property to get the number of fields available. This class is used by a class that reads the file and also has an indexed property for reading each line by index (which returns an object of the previous described generic class) and also has a count property to get the number of lines. See the link for more info about an indexed properties.

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_indexed_property.html[^]

Good luck!