Read Text from file word by word and store in an array

Question

Hello Friends

Its sajid here and i am new to C#. i have a query in C#

what i want to do is Read a file that contains some text. i want to read text word by word and and store those words in an array and then print all those words in array in a list box or drop down..

Please help

Thanks..

Vulpes · Answer

If the words are on separate lines, like this say: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs then this revised code should work: string filePath = @"c:\words.txt"; // or whatever the path is string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(filePath); string[] words = text.Split(new char[]{' ', '', '
'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); listBox1.DataSource = words;

Vulpes · Answer

Well, it depends how the words are laid out in the file. Suppose for example the file contains the following sentence: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Then you could load the file, split it into words and display them in a ListBox in a Windows Forms application with the following code: string filePath = @"c:\words.txt"; // or whatever the path is string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(filePath); string[] words = text.Split(' '); listBox1.DataSource = words;

Kirtan Patel · Answer

attach a Text File in reply From which you want to read all the words !

Senthilkumar · Answer

Hi sahid raja, I have tested and its working fine. Please try the following. StreamReader sreader = new StreamReader(@"c:\ReadWords.txt"); //path of the file string strFileContent = sreader.ReadToEnd(); //Read all the content sreader.Close(); string[] words = strFileContent.Split(new char[] { ' ', '', '
' },StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); //Split by words and remove new lines empty entries ddlWords.DataSource = words; //Create the drop down list and assign it to the control. ddlWords.DataBind(); If this helps you to get the answer then mark it as "Accepted Answer"

Vulpes · Answer

A string in .NET is just a sequence of unicode characters. You can use the string's indexer to pick out the character at a particular index (starting from 0). So, if you have this string: string s = "$ab = 2;"; then: char c0 = s[0]; // $ char c1 = s[1]; // a char c2 = s[2]; // b You can also convert a string to a char array: char[] chars = s.ToCharArray(); or iterate through the characters one by one: string message = ""; foreach(char c in s) message += c.ToString() + "
"; MessageBox.Show(message); // displays characters vertically from top

sajid raja · Answer

Thanks a lot.. Can you please tell me how can i read string character by character,, i am having a university project as. i have to read data some what like $ab = 2; $bc = "Some string"; $xyz= 'A' // Some character I want to read $ a b one by one...

sajid raja · Answer

hello Vulpes Many thanks for your reply.. but i have tried this.. if I have following text in file The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog then it works ok.. But when i Put some more text in a new line in file then it is not working Ok It is splitting only first line in file..