Tonight I have mostly been trying to create a text parser….
and it hasn’t been easy!!
I have a text file that is loosely formatted, now my task that I chose to accept was to create a .Net app that would read this text file extract the various bits of information I needed and then dump this into a dataset that would then be exported in a lovely format for the end user.
But it wasn’t that simple as it involved not just reading one file but reading several and then adding several bits of information together, combining this with some other bits before exporting it.
Now there is a nice simple all be it dirty way of doing this and a not so simple nice way of doing it. Yep you guessed it; I opted for the harder option.
Sufficed to say that at 11pm I have given up on completing it tonight and I’m now going to bed. Hopefully I should get it finished tomorrow in which case I may post up my results and share for anyone else who wishes to undertake such a task.
Good night.
