Reading file structures

[jespeirer]

Is there a way to read a text file into a structure without manually stripping off the data you want and individually moving it to the fields?

ex

public structmyFile
name string 20 bytes;
address string 50 bytes;
zipcode string 5 bytes;

I need to read a file that is 75 bytes long and will lay into this structure in the correct format. I am using C#.

We are trying to convert a process from Cobol to C# and we have literally hundreds of different file layouts. We would like to avoid having to code set statements for every field on every file. Any help would be appreciated

 

[Iceplug]

Have you looked into BinaryStreams? If you fix the length of your strings, you can write an instance of your myFile struct directly to file.

 

[jespeirer]

Unfortunately, that wont work because Im more concerned with reading the file into a defined record structure.