Parse CSV to String Array

We have a use case where we are dynamically generating csv columns and don’t know what columns are available until runtime. Therefore, we can’t define a CSVMapping object in order to instantiate a CSVParser object.

I would like the ability to define and CSVParser without a mapping object and parse a file/string into a String Array. Something like… String[] sArray = new CsvParser(csvParserOptions).ParseToStringArray(filePath);

[bytefish]

@alexb5dh @hthroweriii I have released a Version, which now allows to parse to String Arrays and use the existing infrastructure. Many, many thanks to you two for the input! And sorry to @hthroweriii, I didn’t really understand your initial request and closed the issue too early.

You can now use it like this:

[Test]
public void StringArrayMappingTest()
{
    CsvParserOptions csvParserOptions = new CsvParserOptions(false, ';');
    CsvReaderOptions csvReaderOptions = new CsvReaderOptions(new[] { Environment.NewLine });
    CsvStringArrayMapping csvMapper = new CsvStringArrayMapping();
    CsvParser<string[]> csvParser = new CsvParser<string[]>(csvParserOptions, csvMapper);

    var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder()
        .AppendLine("Philipp;Wagner;1986/05/12")
        .AppendLine("Max;Mustermann;2014/01/01");

    var result = csvParser
        .ReadFromString(csvReaderOptions, stringBuilder.ToString())
        .ToList();

    Assert.AreEqual(2, result.Count);

    Assert.IsTrue(result.All(x => x.IsValid));

    Assert.AreEqual("Philipp", result[0].Result[0]);
    Assert.AreEqual("Wagner", result[0].Result[1]);
    Assert.AreEqual("1986/05/12", result[0].Result[2]);

    Assert.AreEqual("Max", result[1].Result[0]);
    Assert.AreEqual("Mustermann", result[1].Result[1]);
    Assert.AreEqual("2014/01/01", result[1].Result[2]);
}

[alexb5dh]

Thanks @bytefish, looks great!