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A few months ago there was a post on here about someone who had created an open source project to Parse flat files. Does anybody have that link? I think he posted his code on CodeProject.com or gotdotnet. I have searched both, but haven't found it.

Help is appreciated.

Thanks!

This is the project, though the link seems to be down right now:

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/GenericParser.asp

Here's the Google cache:

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:2AuNgMgwehYJ:www.codeproject.com/cs/database/GenericParser.asp+.net+flat+file+parser&hl=en

thanks cory. We did find some good articles and there was a good open source project http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/filehelpers.asp.

After all of this research, we come to find out that they will be sending us an XML file. Yippee! No sweat now.

Well, don't get too excited until you see it and make sure it doesn't look like:

<root>
  <file>
    [HEADER]
    187543.56;
    TR,5,HK,7
    [SECTION]
    1
    7743,5557,19008
    TEFGHLOOK
    <!-- etc, etc -->
  </file>
</root>

;)