I am parsing a text file and importing it into a Data Grid View. The file is set up like so:
number 1 .......... 845.6
number 2 ....... 0.0001
col 1 col 2 col 3
1.233 4.55 1000
I need to get these values into a DGV then I can insert them into a Excel Template. I have everything working except for one line. the "number 1" line ends up all in one cell. I'll explain why.
I use the following code to process each line and sort of create a csv out of the data first.
TextLine = Regex.Replace(TextLine, " {2,}", " ")
TextLine = Replace(TextLine, " ", ",")
Since the data in the file is separated by more then one consecutive space on every line (except "number 1") I can just replace each occurrence with a comma and I get a nice result. What I was trying to do was replace consecutive periods with a space so "number 1" is separated from the value.
I have tried a few things:
TextLine = Regex.Replace(TextLine, "(.)\1{2,}", " ")
TextLine = Regex.Replace(TextLine, ".{2,}", " ")
the top one works, but also obviously gets rid of other characters that are consecutive. I also can't just remove periods, as some numbers have a decimal. I was thinking the solution might be using "Chr(46)" in that function, but I can't seem to make it work.