{"id":31155,"date":"2023-01-19T18:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-read-a-csv-to-a-c-object-to-be-able-to-do-linq-query-on-it-closed\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T18:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T13:18:36","slug":"solved-read-a-csv-to-a-c-object-to-be-able-to-do-linq-query-on-it-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-read-a-csv-to-a-c-object-to-be-able-to-do-linq-query-on-it-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Read a CSV to a C# object to be able to do LINQ query on it [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-33847728\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"33847728\" data-parentid=\"33847491\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>This part is pretty easy because you&#8217;re able to run LINQ queries on <code>IEnumerable&lt;T&gt;<\/code> &#8211; in other words, anything that you can do a <code>foreach<\/code> loop on is something that you can query. And there are a great many ways to do that.<\/p>\n<p>First, however, I&#8217;m assuming that you already know the schema for the data you want to process (i.e., you already know that Column 17 is a birthdate or something like that). If you do, you will be able to build a single C# data object very quickly that your LINQ queries can easily run on. If you don&#8217;t have one, your C# data object will probably be an associative array instead (such as a <code>HashMap<\/code> with <code>string<\/code> keys).<\/p>\n<p>If you have to run multiple queries on the data, you can simply read each line, one by one, and put it into a <code>List&lt;T&gt;<\/code> instance.<\/p>\n<p>But if you have to pass through the CSV data only <em>once<\/em>, you can instead create an iterator method and only read out line by line:<\/p>\n<pre><code>public IEnumerable&lt;DataObject&gt; ReadCSVFile(Stream input)\n{\n  StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(input);\n  string line;\n  while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null) \/\/ this sets and checks line at the same time\n  {\n    DataObject data = new DataObject();\n\n    \/\/ ... fill in the parameters of your data object here ...\n\n    \/\/ this will return the single data object,\n    \/\/ let your LINQ query process it, and then continue the loop\n    yield return data;\n  }\n  reader.Close();\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then, when you do your LINQ query, you invoke the method, as in <\/p>\n<pre><code>from data in ReadCSVFile(dataStream)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Read a CSV to a C# object to be able to do LINQ query on it [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This part is pretty easy because you&#8217;re able to run LINQ queries on IEnumerable&lt;T&gt; &#8211; in other words, anything that you can do a foreach loop on is something that you can query. 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