[help] c# big dictionary

[evil2]

i have this big text file of 20000+ lines of "id = name & rank" (WOW spell ids from wowhead).
it is way too big to use inside the c# editor.

has anyone a hint how to INCLUDE my dictionary data into the source BEFORE runtime,
something simple like this?

Dictionary<uint,string> Spells = new Dictionary<uint,string>()
{ <INCLUDE "resources/FILE"> };


i currently use "single line add" at runtime:

StreamReader f = new StreamReader("FILE");
string line = f.ReadLine();
while (line != null) {
Spells.Add(Convert.ToUInt32(line.Substring(0,5)), line.Substring(6));
line = f.ReadLine();
}

[namelessgnome]

The way you are suggesting is far from good. Never put big amounts of data in source files

StreamReader f = new StreamReader("FILE");
string line = f.ReadLine();
while (line != null) {
Spells.Add(Convert.ToUInt32(line.Substring(0,5)), line.Substring(6));
line = f.ReadLine();
}

is bugged. since it only works with fixed length lines.

[evil2]

i'm not "suggesting".. i WANT it this way

so c# has no kind of <include> function?

[namelessgnome]

The reason for not having include in C# is to avoid people doing this kind of thing.

even languages that are less stricter than C# does not support that kind of thing.

You could use a pre-build script and some custom executable to insert the data into the code file, but that would keep the data in the C# file.

You could use nAnt and code some custom modules to make this work, but why do you even o this?

[Apoc]

        void LoadFile(string filePath)
        {
            using (TextReader tr = new StreamReader(filePath))
            {
                string contents = tr.ReadToEnd();
                string[] lines = contents.Split(Environment.NewLine.ToCharArray(), StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                foreach (string line in lines)
                {
                    string[] split = line.Split(new[] { '=' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                    if (split.Length != 2)
                        continue;

                    Spells.Add(Convert.ToUInt32(split[0]), split[1]);
                }
            }
        }

You could even do the above, using a text file or stream located in the application resources. (When you add a .txt file to the resources, accessing it from Properties.Resources.MyTextFile returns a string (the contents of the file))

[evil2]

well, i googled alot yesterday, apart from namelessgnome words of advice

and there is really no other (easy) way than streamreading from embedded resources,
if i want to keep everything in my program file.

thanks apoc for the code snipper, but my wowheadcom-parser script already takes care of the format job