Quotes in tab-delimited file

Question

I\'ve got a simple application that opens a tab-delimited text file, and inserts that data into a database.

I\'m using this CSV reader to read the data: http://www.codep

Answer 1

I recently solved a similar issue, and although CsvReader was working properly on all but a few lines of my TSV file, what solved my problem in the end was setting a customDelimiter in the constructor of CsvReader

public static void ParseTSV(string filepath)
    {
        using (CsvReader csvReader = new CsvReader(new StreamReader(filepath), true, '\t')) {
        //if that didn't work, passing unlikely characters into the other params might help
        //using (CsvReader csvReader = new CsvReader(new StreamReader(filepath), true, '\t', '~', '`', '~', ValueTrimmingOptions.None)) {
            int fieldcount = csvReader.FieldCount;

            //Does not work, since it's read only property
            //csvReader.Delimiter = "\t";

            string[] headers = csvReader.GetFieldHeaders();

            while (csvReader.ReadNextRecord()) {
                for (int i = 0; i < fieldcount; i++) {
                    string msg = String.Format("{0}\r{1};", headers[i],
                                               csvReader[i]);
                    Console.Write(msg);
                }
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
        }
    }