Delimited Data File Helper

Reader and Writer for Delimited Data File (csv, tab/pipe delimited files)

This is a demo library for my learning and practice purposes.

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1. Why need to have this little library?

   There are many csv libraries out there, but I still prefer to write my own. First reason is that it is not so difficult to write a reader and writer. Second, most of my files don't need cumbersome settings for reader and writer. I just want things become easy and simple.

2. Usage

• By default, csv file reader and writer will read and write "" quoted entries.
• By default, all delimited file reader will trim starting/ending white spaces of each entry.
• By default, all delimited file writer will write a header row in the output file.

var data = new CsvFile("filename.csv").GetData<Contact>();
data.WriteToCsvFile("output.csv");

If you want to skip first n rows,

var data = new PipeDelimitedFile("input.csv")
        .SkipNRows(1)
        .GetData<Contact>()
        .ToList();

If you don't want to trim starting/ending white spaces of each entry,

var data = new TabDelimitedFile("input.txt")
        .SkipNRows(1)
        .GetData<Contact>(new DelimitedFileReaderConfig(false))
        .ToList();

If you don't want to write header in the output file,

var config = new CsvWriterConfig {WriteHeader = false};
data.WriteToCsvFile("output.csv", config);