Convert string to model

Question

Let's say I have this object:

public struct Line
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Value { get; set; }
    public string Alias { get; set; }
}

And I have a file with lines following this syntax:

garbagedata|moregarbagedata|Name|garbagedata3|Value|garbagedatamaximums|Alias\n

Note that moregarbagedata[x] may or may not exist. A Regex is needed to extract the group-values.

What is easiest and most efficient way to turn this file's lines into a collection of Line objects? Order of this collection does not matter.

Answer 1

In my opinion, there are a couple of questions that needs to be asked here.

1. Can you change the file format?
2. Is there no way, you can specify a separate delimiter for key/value pairs? {value:garbage,alias:someotherGarbage},{value:secondGarbage....}
3. Are the lines (Environment.NewLine) the only way packets are separated?

If the answer to 1 is true, then you can use XmlSerializer and Serialize and Deserialize your objects to and fro.

If the answer for 2 is true, then you could look at parsing the file manually using regex or reading line by line and just looking for Value: and then assume that the next item is the value of "Value"

if the answer for 3 is true, Possibly the same answer as 2.

I hope this helps.