How to skip some empty rows in csv file and continue reading rows with data? c# console application

Question

I do have have 5 column within my CVS file, the first two columns have 3 empty rows. I would like to skip these empty rows. I know that I have to loop through the file howev

Answer 1

If you are not familiar/comfortable with Linq then another aproach is like this.

public static IList ReadFile(string fileName)
{
  var results = new List();
  string[] target = File.ReadAllLines(fileName);
  foreach (string line in target)
  {
    var array = line.Split(','); //If your csv is seperated by ; then replace the , with a ;
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(array[0]) && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(array[1]) && array.Length >= 2)
    results.Add(line);
  }
return results;
}

target can still be defined as var, but I've defined it as string[] to make it more obvious that you can then do foreach over the array.

However I like Gilad Green's solution using Linq. I'm less familiar with it so it's not the first solution I think of, but I think it's worth getting familiar with.