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Populating a Textbox with a Text File but it always adds a blank first line?

I have a file containing text and I can get it to populate a textbox on page load but it always adds a blank first line. Any ideas? I've tried skipping the first line in the array in case it was blank (both 0 and 1) but 0 does nothing and 1 skips the first line in the text file.
I've also tried to set the textbox to null and "" first in case it was appending to the textbox in some way.
//Populating the contents box
string[] str = null;
if (File.Exists(docPath + prefix + libIDPath + "\\" + oldFileName))
{
str = File.ReadAllLines(docPath + prefix + libIDPath + "\\" + oldFileName);
//str = str.Skip(0).ToArray();
//FDContentsBox.Text = null;
}
foreach (string s in str)
{
FDContentsBox.Text = FDContentsBox.Text + "\n" + s;
}

In your foreach you are appending the "\n" before appending the string itself. Try
FDContentsBox.Text = FDContentsBox.Text + s + "\n";
instead.

Please try this, there is no need to read all lines nor a foreach loop
var filePath = docPath + prefix + libIDPath + "\\" + oldFileName;
if (File.Exists(filePath))
{
FDContentsBox.Text = File.ReadAllText(filePath);
}

c# Windows Form, replace string in textbox (file content) with another string

I have a textbox that contains all of the lines of a loaded file.
It looks like this:
I am able to load a specific line of the file that contains a specific string using this in the app:
How would I be able to update the file/main textbox after I press the "Edit Module" button, if any of the textboxes would be changed .
For example, I would change Exam Weighting: "0.4" to Exam Weighting: "0.6", then press the "Edit Module" button which would edit the main textbox(file content). Which then would allow me to save the file with the updated content.
This is the code I am using to get a specific line from the file based on string from a textbox:
private void editModuleButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
citation = editModuleComboBox.Text;
citationChange();
}
private void citationChange()
{
List<string> matchedList = new List<string>();
string[] linesArr = File.ReadAllLines(fileName);
//find matches
foreach (string s in linesArr)
{
if (s.Contains(citation))
{
matchedList.Add(s); //matched
}
}
//output
foreach (string s in matchedList)
{
string citationLine = s;
string[] lineData = citationLine.Split(',');
selectedModuleLabel.Text = lineData[2];
moduleTitleTextBox.Text = lineData[3];
creditsTextBox.Text = lineData[4];
semesterTextBox.Text = lineData[5];
examWeightingTextBox.Text = lineData[6];
examMarkTextBox.Text = lineData[7];
testWeightingTextBox.Text = lineData[8];
testMarkTextBox.Text = lineData[9];
courseworkWeightingTextBox.Text = lineData[10];
courseworkMarkTexbox.Text = lineData[11];
}
}
If somebody with enough rep could insert the images to this post, that would be great. Thanks

This solution might not be the perfect, but should work for you. What you need to do is whenever the Edit Module button is pressed, create a new string based on the text fields and replace it with the original line. First declare a string variable private string ChangedString = ""; inside the class, then:
foreach (string s in matchedList)
{
string citationLine = s;
string[] lineData = citationLine.Split(',');
string Stream = lineData[0]; //Store this somewhere so that it can be accessed later
string Stage = lineData[1]; //Store this somewhere so that it can be accessed later
selectedModuleLabel.Text = lineData[2];
moduleTitleTextBox.Text = lineData[3];
creditsTextBox.Text = lineData[4];
semesterTextBox.Text = lineData[5];
examWeightingTextBox.Text = lineData[6];
examMarkTextBox.Text = lineData[7];
testWeightingTextBox.Text = lineData[8];
testMarkTextBox.Text = lineData[9];
courseworkWeightingTextBox.Text = lineData[10];
courseworkMarkTexbox.Text = lineData[11];
}
store Stream and Stage in any Textbox/ComboBox if you already haven't then replace them accordingly in the following line. Now in EditButton_Click [Click Event] write:
ChangedString = Stream + "," + Stage + "," + selectedModuleLabel.Text + "," + moduleTitleTextBox.Text
+ "," + creditsTextBox.Text + "," + semesterTextBox.Text + "," + examWeightingTextBox.Text + ","
+ examMarkTextBox.Text + "," + courseworkWeightingTextBox.Text + "," + courseworkMarkTexbox.Text;
Now replace this string with the original line.
Edit: As you would get the line number which is being edited, store it in a variable, let's say
int LineBeingEdited = 3 //Supposing line number three is being edited.
Then again in the same Click event you can write this:
ChangedString = Stream + "," + Stage + "," + selectedModuleLabel.Text + "," + moduleTitleTextBox.Text
+ "," + creditsTextBox.Text + "," + semesterTextBox.Text + "," + examWeightingTextBox.Text + ","
+ examMarkTextBox.Text + "," + courseworkWeightingTextBox.Text + "," + courseworkMarkTexbox.Text;
var lines = TextBox1.Lines;
lines[LineBeingEdited] = ChangedString;
TextBox1.Lines = lines;
EDIT 2: To get the line number I would suggest you to modify your for each loop to for loop. Also add a int variable to store the line number inside the class like : private int LineBeingEdited = 0;
Modify this for each :
foreach (string s in linesArr)
{
if (s.Contains(citation))
{
matchedList.Add(s); //matched
}
}
To for loop:
for (int a = 0; a < linesArr.Length; a++)
{
if (s.Contains(citation))
{
matchedList.Add(linesArr[a]); //matched
LineBeingEdited = a;
break; //breaks the loop when a match is found
}
}
The above method is being used, taking into consideration that there will always be a single match. LineBeingEdited will now have the line number and can be accessed from anywhere in the class

how to increase the size of array or free the memory after each iteration. Error: Index was outside the bounds of the array c#

I read data from a text file which is 27 MB file and contains 10001 rows, I need to handle large data. I perform some kind of processing in each row of data and then write it back to a text file. This is the code I have am using
StreamReader streamReader = System.IO.File.OpenText("D:\\input.txt");
string lineContent = streamReader.ReadLine();
int count = 0;
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("D:\\ft1.txt"))
{
do
{
if (lineContent != null)
{
string a = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(lineContent).ToString();
string b = "[" + a + "]";
List<TweetModel> deserializedUsers = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<TweetModel>>(b);
var CreatedAt = deserializedUsers.Select(user => user.created_at).ToArray();
var Text = deserializedUsers.Where(m => m.text != null).Select(user => new
{
a = Regex.Replace(user.text, #"[^\u0000-\u007F]", string.Empty)
.Replace(#"\/", "/")
.Replace("\\", #"\")
.Replace("\'", "'")
.Replace("\''", "''")
.Replace("\n", " ")
.Replace("\t", " ")
}).ToArray();
var TextWithTimeStamp = Text[0].a + " (timestamp:" + CreatedAt[0] + ")";
writer.WriteLine(TextWithTimeStamp);
}
lineContent = streamReader.ReadLine();
}
while (streamReader.Peek() != -1);
streamReader.Close();
This code helps does well up to 54 iterations as I get 54 lines in the output file. After that it gives error "Index was outside the bounds of the array." at line
var TextWithTimeStamp = Text[0].a + " (timestamp:" + CreatedAt[0] + ")";
I am not very clear about the issue if the maximum capacity of array has been violated, if so how can I increase it or If I can write the individual line encountered in loop through
writer.WriteLine(TextWithTimeStamp);
And clean the storage or something that can solve this issue. I tried using list insead of array , still issue is the same.Please help.

Change this line
var TextWithTimeStamp = Text[0].a + " (timestamp:" + CreatedAt[0] + ")";
to
var TextWithTimeStamp = (Text.Any() ? Text.First().a : string.Empty) +
" (timestamp:" + (CreatedAt.Any() ? CreatedAt.First() : string.Empty) + ")";
As you are creating Text and CreatedAt collection objects, they might be empty (0 total item) based on some scenarios and conditions.
Those cases, Text[0] and CreatedAt[0] will fail. So, before using the first element, check if there are any items in the collection. Linq method Any() is used for that purpose.
Update
If you want to skip the lines that do not contain text, change this lines
var TextWithTimeStamp = Text[0].a + " (timestamp:" + CreatedAt[0] + ")";
writer.WriteLine(TextWithTimeStamp);
to
if (Text.Any())
{
var TextWithTimeStamp = Text.First().a + " (timestamp:" + CreatedAt.First() + ")";
writer.WriteLine(TextWithTimeStamp);
}
Update 2
To include all the stringss from CreatedAt rather than only the first one, you can add all the values in comma separated strings. A general example
var strings = new List<string> { "a", "b", "c" };
var allStrings = string.Join(",", strings); //"a,b,c"

Need Help the best overloaded method match for 'string.endswith(string)' has some invalid arguments

dynamic counter = 1;
string FileNameWithoutExtestion = "";
FileNameWithoutExtestion = file.Split('.')[0];
string FileExtestion = file.Split('.')[1];
while (System.IO.File.Exists(Dir + file))
{
if (true)
{
counter = counter + 1;
if (FileNameWithoutExtestion.EndsWith('_'))
{
file = FileNameWithoutExtestion + counter.ToString() + "." + FileExtestion;
}
else
{
file = FileNameWithoutExtestion + "_" + counter.ToString() + "." + FileExtestion;
}
}
}
if (FileNameWithoutExtestion.EndsWith('_')) //the error occurred here
Whats wrong ?

String.EndsWith() only has overloads with string as parameter, you insert a char.
Replace
.EndsWith('_')
with
.EndsWith("_")
and i would use those path-methods to parse filenames and extensions
string FileNameWithoutExtestion = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file);
string FileExtestion = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(file); //.jpg
because FileNameWithoutExtestion = file.Split('.')[0]; will lead to a invalid value in case of a filename like foo.bar.jpg

accessing data from database and displaying it in textbox

I am using this code for accessing data from database and displaying it in textboxes,but i am getting whole string columns in 1st textbox ,how do i split and display in respective textboxes,i am getting this exception Index was outside the bounds of the array. at this line of code txtOption2.Text = coldata[2];
public EditQuestionMaster(int qid_value)
{
InitializeComponent();
string columns = db.GetEditQuestions(qid_value);
string[] coldata=columns.Split('$');
txtQuestion.Text = coldata[0];
txtOption1.Text = coldata[1];
txtOption2.Text = coldata[2];
txtOption3.Text = coldata[3];
txtOption4.Text = coldata[4];
}
GetEditQuestions(qid_value) Code
public string GetEditQuestions(int qid)
{
string data = "";
try
{
string sql = "select QID,Question,Opt1,Opt2,Opt3,Opt4,AnsOp,Marks from Questions where QID IN(" + qid + ") ";
cmd = new OleDbCommand(sql, acccon);
rs = cmd.ExecuteReader();
if (rs.Read())
{
data = rs[0].ToString() + "~" + rs[1].ToString() + "~" + rs[2].ToString() + "~" + rs[3].ToString() + "~" + rs[4].ToString() + "~" + rs[5].ToString() + "~" + rs[6].ToString() + "~" + rs[7].ToString() + "$";
}
}
catch (Exception err)
{
}
return data;
}
thank you in advance for any help

You appear to split the string by $ but you build the string up using ~ as the separator. You need to split the string by ~ to get the appropriate number of columns i.e.
string[] coldata = columns.Split("~")

You are seeing that error because you only have 2 items in coldata. Try debugging and view the length of the coldata array to see how many items it contains.
Change your code to use this split instead:
string[] coldata=columns.Split('~');

Looking at your code sample you just need to change:
string[] coldata=columns.Split('$');
To
string[] coldata=columns.Split('~');
As your columns are delimited by the ~ character.