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FileHelperEngineTReadFileAsList Method (String)

Note: This API is now obsolete.

Read a file and return an array of the contained records.

Namespace:  FileHelpers
Assembly:  FileHelpers (in FileHelpers.dll) Version: 3.2.6
Syntax
[ObsoleteAttribute("Please use ReadFile(...).AsList() instead.")]
public List<T> ReadFileAsList(
	string fileName
)

Parameters

fileName
Type: SystemString
The file path to be read.

Return Value

Type: ListT
An array of the records in the file
Remarks
This method opens, reads and closes the file (don't open or close the file before or after calling this method)
Examples
This example shows a simple example of use of the library with a minimum of code:
using FileHelpers;

// First declare the record class

[Delimitedrecord("|")]
public class SampleType
{
    public string Field1;
    public int    Field2;
}


public void ReadExample()
{
    var engine = new FileHelperEngine<SampleType>();

    var records = engine.ReadFile("source.txt");

    // Now "records" array contains all the records in the
    // sourcefile and can be acceded like this:

    int sum = records[0].Field2 + records[1].Field2;
}
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