C# code for dividing text into columns

Question

I want to seperate txt data by " " (space character) with c# code. Data is seen in the below. I want there to be columns and reach all the columns seperately. For example copying 3rd and 4th columns of 3rd, 4th and 5th rows. A lot of codes are tried but not working. I searched the web and i can't run the codes that i found. How can i do that?

data inside the text.txt file

1
41
973 3.93E-03 9.99E-02 2.00E+01 3.90E-01 0.00E+00 0.00E+00
975 7.85E-03 9.97E-02 2.00E+01 3.90E-01 0.00E+00 0.00E+00
977 1.18E-02 9.93E-02 2.00E+01 3.90E-01 0.00E+00 0.00E+00
979 1.56E-02 9.88E-02 2.00E+01 3.89E-01 0.00E+00 0.00E+00
981 1.95E-02 9.81E-02 2.00E+01 3.88E-01 0.00E+00 0.00E+00
983 2.33E-02 9.72E-02 2.00E+01 3.87E-01 0.00E+00 0.00E+00

Answer 1

Try:

var fileContent = File.ReadAllLines("data.txt");
var separated = fileContent.Select(line => line.Split(' ').ToArray();

You'll end up with array (rows) of values (columns). To access them use:

var row4Col5 = separated[3][4];

Not that you might want to do some boundaries checks, as some lines of your data file don't contain all columns.

Answer 2

You can easily read the whole text file into an array of strings:

string[] content = File.ReadAllLines("{path to your file");

And then skip the first 2 lines which are not relevant in this case and divide each line into an array of values:

string[][] array = content.Skip(2).Select(line => line.Split(' ')).ToArray();