What's the best way/control to use for this data problem?

[vbMark]

Greetings,

I have text files that have:
- one record per row.
- no header.
- no delimiters.

Columns are know by the number of characters per field.

For example:

3388br445bob smith 122332324

could be:
UserID - 4 chars
BlahID - 5 chars
FirstName - whatever chars
etc.

I am using C# express 2005 latest Beta/RC.

I am going to use the openFileDialog to indicate the
file to use

What is the best control to use for displaying the data
in proper columns?

Thanks!

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[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Well, your real problem is how to generate the columns to have them feed to
the control :)

The control can be anything , ListView , ListBox, Datagrid.

How to get the fields you have to interprete each line of the file, you need
to know the format and then use String.SubString to parse it.
Create a class with the columns of the files, or you could create a dataset
+ datatable and the latter will store the records.

cheers,

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Ignacio Machin,
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Greetings,

I have text files that have:
- one record per row.
- no header.
- no delimiters.

Columns are know by the number of characters per field.

For example:

3388br445bob smith 122332324

could be:
UserID - 4 chars
BlahID - 5 chars
FirstName - whatever chars
etc.

I am using C# express 2005 latest Beta/RC.

I am going to use the openFileDialog to indicate the
file to use

What is the best control to use for displaying the data
in proper columns?

Thanks!

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