remove line from excel file

05-05-09, 10:00 AM

nicknack

Hello.
I'm Reading data from an excel (CSV) file with header row and its
fine.
Now I have a file with one more line in the start (above the header)
and it giving me a lot of problems.

is there a way from C# to open the csv file and remove the first line?

If not as excel then maybe I'll just open it as a text file and remove
it (I know whats the string I want to remove).

Whats the fasted way to remove a string from the beggining of a txt
file?

Thanks.

05-05-09, 10:08 AM

Mark Rae [MVP]

"nicknack" <roezohar> wrote in message
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> I'm reading data from a CSV file with a header row

What method are you using to read the CSV file?

05-05-09, 11:06 AM

nicknack

On 5 ×ž××™, 11:08, "Mark Rae [MVP]" <m> wrote:
> "nicknack" <roezo> wrote in message
>
> news:e3cc
>
> > I'm reading data from a CSV file with a header row
>
> What method are you using to read the CSV file?
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVPhttp://www.markrae.net

Hi,
I'm connecting useing an oledb connection and filling a dataTable with
dataAdapter.

But the problem is that I need to remove the line before the reading
start since its a line with only one cell with a text.

I need to first remove the line, save the file and only then read it
with the oledb.

Thats what I think but I don't know how to remove it.

Thanks.

05-05-09, 11:44 AM

Mark Rae [MVP]

"nicknack" <roezohar> wrote in message
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>>> I'm reading data from a CSV file with a header row
>>
>> What method are you using to read the CSV file?

> I'm connecting using an OleDb connection and filling a dataTable with
> dataAdapter.

> But the problem is that I need to remove the line before the reading
> starts since it's a line with only one cell with a text.
>
> I need to first remove the line, save the file and only then read it
> with the oledb.

As you've no doubt discovered, the OleDb connection string for Excel
contains a HDR=Yes option, but that only tells ADO.NET that there is *one*
header row - there doesn't appear to be an option for more than one header
row.

Therefore, I would probably just open the file with the System.IO classes,
read each line one by one, discard the first line, and then write out the
remaining lines to a new file.

Either that, or read the lines one by one, split them into an array, and
then carry on the processing from there.
It's simple enough to populate a DataTable manually in code:
http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/256-csv-datatable.html

05-05-09, 01:09 PM

nicknack

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply.

The "HDR" doesn't work as you said, for more then one row.

What I did at the end was to read the file (file.readAllLines) and
then create it again after discarding the first line.

Not very elegant but work :)

Thanks again!

roy.

05-05-09, 02:39 PM

Mark Rae [MVP]

"nicknack" <roezohar> wrote in message
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> Not very elegant but works :)

Sometimes that's all that matters...

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