I am having trouble attempting to find words in a text file in C#.
I want to find the word that is input into the console then display the entire line that the word was found on in the console.
In my text file I have:
Stephen Haren,December,9,4055551235
Laura Clausing,January,23,4054447788
William Connor,December,13,123456789
Kara Marie,October,23,1593574862
Audrey Carrit,January,16,1684527548
Sebastian Baker,October,23,9184569876
So if I input "December" I want it to display "Stephen Haren,December,9,4055551235" and "William Connor,December,13,123456789" .
I thought about using substrings but I figured there had to be a simpler way.
My Code After Given Answer:
using System;
using System.IO;
class ReadFriendRecords
{
public static void Main()
{
//the path of the file
FileStream inFile = new FileStream(@"H:\C#\Chapter.14\FriendInfo.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(inFile);
string record;
string input;
Console.Write("Enter Friend's Birth Month >> ");
input = Console.ReadLine();
try
{
//the program reads the record and displays it on the screen
record = reader.ReadLine();
while (record != null)
{
if (record.Contains(input))
{
Console.WriteLine(record);
}
record = reader.ReadLine();
}
}
finally
{
//after the record is done being read, the progam closes
reader.Close();
inFile.Close();
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
Iterate through all the lines (StreamReader, File.ReadAllLines, etc.) and check if
line.Contains("December")
(replace "December" with the user input).
Edit:
I would go with the StreamReader in case you have large files. And use the IndexOf-Example from @Matias Cicero instead of contains for case insensitive.
Console.Write("Keyword: ");
var keyword = Console.ReadLine() ?? "";
using (var sr = new StreamReader("")) {
while (!sr.EndOfStream) {
var line = sr.ReadLine();
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(line)) continue;
if (line.IndexOf(keyword, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) >= 0) {
Console.WriteLine(line);
}
}
}
How about something like this:
//We read all the lines from the file
IEnumerable<string> lines = File.ReadAllLines("your_file.txt");
//We read the input from the user
Console.Write("Enter the word to search: ");
string input = Console.ReadLine().Trim();
//We identify the matches. If the input is empty, then we return no matches at all
IEnumerable<string> matches = !String.IsNullOrEmpty(input)
? lines.Where(line => line.IndexOf(input, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) >= 0)
: Enumerable.Empty<string>();
//If there are matches, we output them. If there are not, we show an informative message
Console.WriteLine(matches.Any()
? String.Format("Matches:\n> {0}", String.Join("\n> ", matches))
: "There were no matches");
This approach is simple and easy to read, it uses LINQ and String.IndexOf instead of String.Contains so we can do a case insensitive search.
As mantioned by @Rinecamo, try this code:
string toSearch = Console.ReadLine().Trim();
In this codeline, you'll be able to read user input and store it in a line, then iterate for each line:
foreach (string line in System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(FILEPATH))
{
if(line.Contains(toSearch))
Console.WriteLine(line);
}
Replace FILEPATH
with the absolute or relative path, e.g. ".\file2Read.txt".
For finding text in a file you can use this algorithim use this code in
static void Main(string[] args)
{
}
try this one
StreamReader oReader;
if (File.Exists(@"C:\TextFile.txt"))
{
Console.WriteLine("Enter a word to search");
string cSearforSomething = Console.ReadLine().Trim();
oReader = new StreamReader(@"C:\TextFile.txt");
string cColl = oReader.ReadToEnd();
string cCriteria = @"\b"+cSearforSomething+@"\b";
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex oRegex = new
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(cCriteria,RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
int count = oRegex.Matches(cColl).Count;
Console.WriteLine(count.ToString());
}
Console.ReadLine();