/// <summary>
/// Load a CSV file into an array of Dictionary objects.
/// The first line of the CSV is taken to be headers, these values will be used as the indexes/keys to the dictionaries.
/// Each subsequent line will be placed in a dictionary with the headers as keys
/// </summary>
/// <param name="strFileName">The path and file name to read</param>
/// <returns>The array of dictionaries created when reading the CSV data</returns>
public static Dictionary <String, String>[] LoadCSVFile(string strFileName)
{
string[] astrTextFile, astrLineValues;
List <String> lstrHeaders, lstrValues;
Dictionary <String, String>[] adctRetFile;
Dictionary <String, String> dctOneLine;
int iCnt;
astrTextFile = LoadTextFile(strFileName);
adctRetFile = new Dictionary <string, string> [astrTextFile.Length - 1]; //First line is the header, don't count it
//Determine the headers
lstrHeaders = (List <String>)RegEx.SplitOnMatches(astrTextFile[0], "([^,\"]*|[^,\"]*\"[^\"]*\"[^,\"]*)(,|$)");
//Loop through all lines building the dictionary, first line is headers skip it
for (int iCtr = 1; iCtr < astrTextFile.Length; iCtr++)
{
dctOneLine = new Dictionary <string, string>();
lstrValues = (List <String>)RegEx.SplitOnMatches(astrTextFile[iCtr], "([^,\"]*|[^,\"]*\"[^\"]*\"[^,\"]*)(,|$)");
astrLineValues = lstrValues.ToArray();
iCnt = 0;
foreach (string strCurrHeader in lstrHeaders)
{
//Trim white space and trailing commas
string strCleanHeader = strCurrHeader.Trim();
if (strCleanHeader.EndsWith(",") == true)
{
strCleanHeader = strCleanHeader.Substring(0, strCleanHeader.Length - 1);
strCleanHeader = strCleanHeader.Trim();
}
astrLineValues[iCnt] = astrLineValues[iCnt].Trim();
if (astrLineValues[iCnt].EndsWith(",") == true)
{
astrLineValues[iCnt] = astrLineValues[iCnt].Substring(0, astrLineValues[iCnt].Length - 1);
astrLineValues[iCnt] = astrLineValues[iCnt].Trim();
}
dctOneLine.Add(strCleanHeader, astrLineValues[iCnt]);
iCnt++;
}
//Add dictionary to array
adctRetFile[iCtr - 1] = dctOneLine;
}
return(adctRetFile);
}
/// <summary>
/// Retrieves a list of all sub-directories in a directory that match the specified regular expression
/// </summary>
/// <param name="DirPath">Directory path to search</param>
/// <param name="DirRegEx">Regular expression to apply to each directory name</param>
/// <returns>The list of directory names that matched the regular expression</returns>
static public IEnumerable <string> ListDirsInDir(string DirPath, string DirRegEx)
{
List <string> FilterDirList = new List <string>();
string[] FullFileList = Directory.GetDirectories(DirPath);
string FileName;
foreach (string FilePath in FullFileList)
{
FileName = Path.GetFileName(FilePath);
if (RegEx.QuickTest(FileName, DirRegEx) == true)
{
FilterDirList.Add(FileName);
}
}
return(FilterDirList);
}
