I have a problem writing a program in C#.
I want to to save string variables from a ListBox1 to textfile, which is named after the item from ListBox2, like here:
Write = new StreamWriter(xxxxx);
for (int I = 0; I < ListBox1.Items.Count; I++)
{
Text = (SubCategories.Items[I]).ToString();
Write.WriteLine(Text);
}
Write.Close();
What should I replace xxxxx to have there ListBox2.SelectedItem, for example to make file "test.txt".
You can replace xxxxx with this:
var path = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, ListBox2.SelectedItem.ToString());
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(path))
{
for (int I = 0; I < ListBox1.Items.Count; I++)
{
Text = (SubCategories.Items[I]).ToString();
writer.WriteLine(Text);
}
}
You should use a using with IDisposable objects.
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I'm designing a simple Epos system as a project and I need to read my stock values in from a file at the beginning of the application in the form of a collection so I am trying to use a 2d int array but not having much luck.
The format of my txt file looks like this:
15,10,12,19,8
16,9,11,17,10
7,6,17,14,11
8,8,12,13,5
6,7,13,14,4
1,4,15,10,10
6,9,10,14,13
8,7,9,10,11
8,12,10,15,6
9,7,6,13,9
18,8,7,11,5
7,12,10,8,9
12,6,7,9,10
My code is as follows :
private void ReadToFileOpeningStock(int [,] Stock)
{
//create an array to hold data from file
string[] OneRowOfDataArray;
const int StockColumns = 13;
const int StockRows = 5;
int[,] STOCK_ITEMS = new int[StockColumns, StockRows];
try
{
// Declare a StreamReader variable.
StreamReader inputFile;
// Open the file and get a StreamReader object.
inputFile = File.OpenText("Opening StartingStock.txt");
while (!inputFile.EndOfStream)
{
OneRowOfDataArray = inputFile.ReadLine().Split(',');
for (int i = 0; i < StockColumns; i++)
{
//Here are the inner columns
for (int j = 0; j < StockRows; j++)
{
}
}
}
inputFile.Close();
}
catch
{
MessageBox.Show("Error");
}
I also have an empty array named Stock declared with the rest of thevariables that I have declared in the method name above.
int[,] Stock ;
How do I assign my text values to an array so that I can use it later in the application?
Sorry if I'm not being clear, I'm new to programming. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I changed it to use file.readallines as it is what I normally use. I've added an extra array to record all the lines, to then be separated with a split into OneRowOfDataArray.
I added outputs and the line to set the value to the STOCK_ITEMS. The only other thing I changed is I removed the spaces in between the rows on the txt file
static int[,] STOCK_ITEMS = new int[4, 3];
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//create an array to hold data from file
string[] RowsOfData;//contains rows of data
string[] OneRowOfDataArray;//will contain values seperated by the rows
const int StockColumns = 13;
const int StockRows = 5;
int[,] STOCK_ITEMS = new int[StockColumns, StockRows];
try
{
// Open the file and get a StreamReader object.
RowsOfData = File.ReadAllLines("Opening StartingStock.txt");//sets all lines and seperates them into ROWSOFDATA array
for (int i = 0; i < StockColumns; i++)
{
OneRowOfDataArray = RowsOfData[i].Split(',');//splits the values in each row seperate
Console.WriteLine();//new line when outputting the data
//Here are the inner columns
for (int j = 0; j < StockRows; j++)
{
STOCK_ITEMS[i, j] = Int32.Parse(OneRowOfDataArray[j]);//save to correct index in stock items
Console.Write("[" + STOCK_ITEMS[i, j] + "]");//output value from the row
}
}
}
catch
{
MessageBox.Show("Error");
}
}
txt file
15,10,12,19,8
16,9,11,17,10
7,6,17,14,11
8,8,12,13,5
6,7,13,14,4
1,4,15,10,10
6,9,10,14,13
8,7,9,10,11
8,12,10,15,6
9,7,6,13,9
18,8,7,11,5
7,12,10,8,9
12,6,7,9,10
I am currently working on an assignment for school where I am trying to write a 2D string array into a text file. I have the array and know its working fine however every time I try to read the file into Streamwriter I get "System.ArgumentException: 'Illegal characters in path.'". I am relatively new to C# and I have no idea how to fix this.
This is my code. I just need to know how to write my 2D array into the text file without getting this error. Thanks, all and any help is much appreciated!
// This line under is where the error happens
using (var sw = new StreamWriter(Harvey_Norman.Properties.Resources.InventoryList))
{
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
{
sw.Write(InventoryArray[i, j] + " ");
}
sw.Write("\n");
}
sw.Flush();
sw.Close();
}
My guess is that Harvey_Norman.Properties.Resources.InventoryList is a resource in your project that is typed as a string-- and the value of that string is not a valid path for your operating system.
StreamWriter will either take a string, in which case it expects to open a file with the path of that string; or it will take a stream, and you can write to that stream. It looks like you are trying to do the former; but you need to check the value of that resource to see if it is a vaild path.
You're trying to construct a StreamWriter with an invalid file path.
Also, if you're just writing text out, you can use File.CreateText() to create a StreamWriter, for example:
var tempFilePath = Path.GetTempFileName();
using (var writer = File.CreateText(tempFilePath))
{
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
{
if (j > 0)
writer.WriteLine(" ");
writer.Write(InventoryArray[i, j]);
}
writer.WriteLine();
}
}
The using will automatically flush and close the file, and dispose the StreamWriter.
I am currently trying to take a file of words that are not in alphabetical, re-order the words so that they are in alphabetical order (I am trying to use a non-built in sort method), and then write the newly ordered list into a new txt file(one that must be created). For example, lets say there is only five words in the txt file that are as follows "dog bat apple rabbit cat". I would want the program to resort these in alphabetical order, and then create a txt file that saves that order. As of right now, the program will iterate through the txt file, but will not save the re-ordered list into the new txt file. What is saved into the new file is this... "System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]"
Truth be told, I am not very savvy with c# yet, so i apologize if my structuring or coding is not very well. The original file that is un-ordered is called "jumbled english FILTERED.ALL.txt", and the file I am trying to write to is called "english FILTERED.ALL.txt".
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// declaring integer for minimum.
int min = 0;
// declare the list for the original file
List<string> LinuxWords = new List<string>();
List<string> lexicalOrder = new List<string>();
// read the text from the file
string[] lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines("jumbled english FILTERED.ALL.txt");
string line = string.Empty;
// seperate each word into a string
//foreach (string line in lines)
//{
//add each word into the list.
//LinuxWords.Add(line);
//}
for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length - 1; i++)
{
for (int j = i + 1; j < lines.Length; j++)
{
if (lines[i].Length < lines[j].Length)
{
min = lines[i].Length;
}
else
{
min = lines[j].Length;
}
for (int k = 0; k < min; k++)
{
if (lines[i][k] > lines[j][k])
{
line = lines[i].ToString();
lines[i] = lines[j];
lines[j] = line;
break;
}
else if (lines[i][k] == lines[j][k])
{
continue;
}
else
{
break;
}
}
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine("The program is formatting the correct order");
lexicalOrder.Add(lines[i]);
}
//lexicalOrder.ForEach(Console.WriteLine);
//}
//LinuxWords.ForEach(Console.WriteLine);
File.WriteAllText(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "english FILTERED.ALL.txt",
lexicalOrder.ToString());
// write the ordered list back into another .txt file named "english FILTERED.ALL.txt"
// System.IO.File.WriteAllLines("english FILTERED.ALL.txt", lexicalOrder);
Console.WriteLine("Finished");
}
Assuming you mean that you don't get the list saved (if that's not the problem - please be more specific) - you need to change
lexicalOrder.ToString()
to something like
lexicalOrder.Aggregate((s1, s2) => s1 + " " + s2)
Problem Statement
In order to run gene annotation software, I need to prepare two types of files, vcard files and coverage tables, and there has to be one-to-one match of vcard to coverage table. Since Im running 2k samples, its hard to identify which file is not one-to-one match. I know that both files have unique identifier numbers, hence, if both folders have files that have same unique numbers, i treat that as "same" file
I made a program that compares two folders and reports unique entries in each folder. To do so, I made two list that contains unique file names to each directory.
I want to format the report file (tab delimited .txt file) such that it looks something like below:
Unique in fdr1 Unique in fdr2
file x file a
file y file b
file z file c
I find this difficult to do because I have to iterate twice (since I have two lists), but there is no way of going back to the previous line in StreamWriter as far as I know. Basically, once I iterate through the first list and fill the first column, how can I fill the second column with the second list?
Can someone help me out with this?
Thanks
If design of the code has to change (i.e. one list instead of two), please let me know
As requested by some user, this is how I was going to do (not working version)
// Write report
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(dest_txt.Text + #"\" + "Report.txt"))
{
// Write headers
sw.WriteLine("Unique Entries in Folder1" + "\t" + "Unique Entries in Folder2");
// Write unique entries in fdr1
foreach(string file in fdr1FileList)
{
sw.WriteLine(file + "\t");
}
// Write unique entries in fdr2
foreach (string file in fdr2FileList)
{
sw.WriteLine(file + "\t");
}
sw.Dispose();
}
As requested for my approach for finding unique entries, here's my code snippet
Dictionary<int, bool> fdr1Dict = new Dictionary<int, bool>();
Dictionary<int, bool> fdr2Dict = new Dictionary<int, bool>();
List<string> fdr1FileList = new List<string>();
List<string> fdr2FileList = new List<string>();
string fdr1Path = folder1_txt.Text;
string fdr2Path = folder2_txt.Text;
// File names in the specified directory; path not included
string[] fdr1FileNames = Directory.GetFiles(fdr1Path).Select(Path.GetFileName).ToArray();
string[] fdr2FileNames = Directory.GetFiles(fdr2Path).Select(Path.GetFileName).ToArray();
// Iterate through the first directory, and add GL number to dictionary
for(int i = 0; i < fdr1FileNames.Length; i++)
{
// Grabs only the number from the file name
string number = Regex.Match(fdr1FileNames[i], #"\d+").ToString();
int glNumber;
// Make sure it is a number
if(Int32.TryParse(number, out glNumber))
{
fdr1Dict[glNumber] = true;
}
// If number not present, raise exception
else
{
throw new Exception(String.Format("GL Number not found in: {0}", fdr1FileNames[i]));
}
}
// Iterate through the second directory, and add GL number to dictionary
for (int i = 0; i < fdr2FileNames.Length; i++)
{
// Grabs only the number from the file name
string number = Regex.Match(fdr2FileNames[i], #"\d+").ToString();
int glNumber;
// Make sure it is a number
if (Int32.TryParse(number, out glNumber))
{
fdr2Dict[glNumber] = true;
}
// If number not present, raise exception
else
{
throw new Exception(String.Format("GL Number not found in: {0}", fdr2FileNames[i]));
}
}
// Iterate through the first directory, and find files that are unique to it
for (int i = 0; i < fdr1FileNames.Length; i++)
{
int glNumber = Int32.Parse(Regex.Match(fdr1FileNames[i], #"\d+").Value);
// If same file is not present in the second folder add to the list
if(!fdr2Dict[glNumber])
{
fdr1FileList.Add(fdr1FileNames[i]);
}
}
// Iterate through the second directory, and find files that are unique to it
for (int i = 0; i < fdr2FileNames.Length; i++)
{
int glNumber = Int32.Parse(Regex.Match(fdr2FileNames[i], #"\d+").Value);
// If same file is not present in the first folder add to the list
if (!fdr1Dict[glNumber])
{
fdr2FileList.Add(fdr2FileNames[i]);
}
I am a quite confident that this will work as I've tested it:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var firstDir = #"Path1";
var secondDir = #"Path2";
var firstDirFiles = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(firstDir);
var secondDirFiles = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(secondDir);
print2Dirs(firstDirFiles, secondDirFiles);
}
private static void print2Dirs(string[] firstDirFile, string[] secondDirFiles)
{
var maxIndex = Math.Max(firstDirFile.Length, secondDirFiles.Length);
using (StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter("result.txt"))
{
streamWriter.WriteLine(string.Format("{0,-150}{1,-150}", "Unique in fdr1", "Unique in fdr2"));
for (int i = 0; i < maxIndex; i++)
{
streamWriter.WriteLine(string.Format("{0,-150}{1,-150}",
firstDirFile.Length > i ? firstDirFile[i] : string.Empty,
secondDirFiles.Length > i ? secondDirFiles[i] : string.Empty));
}
}
}
It's a quite simple code but if you need help understanding it just let me know :)
I would construct each line at a time. Something like this:
int row = 0;
string[] fdr1FileList = new string[0];
string[] fdr2FileList = new string[0];
while (row < fdr1FileList.Length || row < fdr2FileList.Length)
{
string rowText = "";
rowText += (row >= fdr1FileList.Length ? "\t" : fdr1FileList[row] + "\t");
rowText += (row >= fdr2FileList.Length ? "\t" : fdr2FileList[row]);
row++;
}
Try something like this:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Dictionary<int, string> fdr1Dict = FilesToDictionary(Directory.GetFiles("path1"));
Dictionary<int, string> fdr2Dict = FilesToDictionary(Directory.GetFiles("path2"));
var unique_f1 = fdr1Dict.Where(f1 => !fdr2Dict.ContainsKey(f1.Key)).ToArray();
var unique_f2 = fdr2Dict.Where(f2 => !fdr1Dict.ContainsKey(f2.Key)).ToArray();
int f1_size = unique_f1.Length;
int f2_size = unique_f2.Length;
int list_length = 0;
if (f1_size > f2_size)
{
list_length = f1_size;
Array.Resize(ref unique_f2, list_length);
}
else
{
list_length = f2_size;
Array.Resize(ref unique_f1, list_length);
}
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("output.txt"))
{
writer.WriteLine(string.Format("{0,-30}{1,-30}", "Unique in fdr1", "Unique in fdr2"));
for (int i = 0; i < list_length; i++)
{
writer.WriteLine(string.Format("{0,-30}{1,-30}", unique_f1[i].Value, unique_f2[i].Value));
}
}
}
static Dictionary<int, string> FilesToDictionary(string[] filenames)
{
Dictionary<int, string> dict = new Dictionary<int, string>();
for (int i = 0; i < filenames.Length; i++)
{
int glNumber;
string filename = Path.GetFileName(filenames[i]);
string number = Regex.Match(filename, #"\d+").ToString();
if (int.TryParse(number, out glNumber))
dict.Add(glNumber, filename);
}
return dict;
}
Im using C# and my code is reading and moving some files. The problem is, that there are not so many files to read and move them to other folders. But I would like to test my code with 500,1000 or more files at once.
I could create every single file by myself -> not so smart. I could generate these files and write my own code for this -> could work, but is there not an easier way? Maybe there are already some tools for developers to create testfiles? Or is there another solution in c#/.net?
PS: Ah forgot to say - Im reading normal ascii file. Later I would like to create "csv-like" files (strings splittet by ";") if it would be possible.
This code will create an arbitrary number of files, each with an arbitrary number of lines, each containing an arbitrary number of comma-separated random integer values.
I hope it gets you started on creating some test data for your application.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int numFiles = 30;
for (int fileIndex = 0; fileIndex < numFiles; fileIndex++)
{
string randomFileName = Path.Combine(#"c:\temp", Path.GetRandomFileName() + ".csv");
GenerateTestFile(randomFileName, 20, 10);
}
}
static void GenerateTestFile(string fileName, int numLines, int numValues)
{
int[] values = new int[numValues];
Random random = new Random(DateTime.Now.Millisecond);
FileInfo f = new FileInfo(fileName);
using (TextWriter fs = f.CreateText())
{
for (int lineIndex = 0; lineIndex < numLines; lineIndex++)
{
for (int valIndex = 0; valIndex < values.Length; valIndex++)
{
values[valIndex] = random.Next(100);
}
fs.WriteLine(string.Join(",", values));
}
}
}
var yourSampleTextStringArray = new[]{"dada","dada","aaa"/*.....*/};
var rnd = new Random();
for (int i = 0; i < 10e3; i++)
{
var temp = Path.GetTempFileName();
File.WriteAllLines(temp, yourSampleTextStringArray.Where(line => rnd.NextDouble() > 0.5));
}