How to read a CSV file with a cell that has multiple lines using C #
I am trying to read a CSV file that has a cell with multiple lines.
This is what the CSV looks like: 
row 1, the Part column has multiple rows.
When I try to read it using the method ReadLine()
:
private void buttonBrowse_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
openFileDialog.Filter = "Excel Worksheets|*.csv";
if (openFileDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
String filePathAndName = openFileDialog.FileName;
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(filePathAndName);
String line = reader.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(line);
do
{
line = reader.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(line);
} while (line != null);
}
}
it splits a cell with multiple lines into the number of lines:
[1]"Time of Day","Process Name","PID","Operation","Path","Result","Detail","Image Path"
[2]"22:52:24.2905182","notepad.exe","4828","Process Start","","SUCCESS","Parent PID: 2484, Command line: ""C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe"" , Current directory: C:\Users\User\, Environment:
[3]; =::=::\
[4]; ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
[5]; APPDATA=C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming
[6]; asl.log=Destination=file
[7]; CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
...
"22:52:24.2905201","notepad.exe","4828","Thread Create","","SUCCESS","Thread ID: 8008","C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe"
"22:52:24.2915842","notepad.exe","4828","Load Image","C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe","SUCCESS","Image Base: 0x6f0000, Image Size: 0x30000","C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe"
in the above logs, lines 2-7 should be one line.
I want to read it how powershell did it beautifully here using a function import-csv
:
And you can easily retrieve data from a specific cell by its row and column using the command (example):
$csvContent[0] |select -expand Detail
Example: 
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I know this is not a very good way to do it, but it works in my case:
lineCounter = 0;
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
var line = reader.ReadLine();
var values = line.Split(',');
if(values.Length == 1)
{
list4[lineCounter-1] += values[0];
}
else
{
list1.Add(values[0]);
list2.Add(values[1]);
list3.Add(values[2]);
list4.Add(values[3]);
lineCounter++;
}
}
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