[URGENT] How to make c# application react to .txt files

[petergm]

Hello there!

I just started coding a VERY simple World of Warcraft bot. I want the bot to react to a text file or xml file.

That means that it should probably be something like this:

the textfile:
press 1,4,3
goto x,y

And then the bot react to the text file. I can not figure out how to do it.
By basic idea would be:
1. make a test .txt file (f.e press 1)
2. make a class that opens and read the txt file.
3. make a start button that when clicked calls the class.

However I do not know how to do any of theese steps probably.

I am new so I want it to be as SIMPLE as possible. Can anybody help me out? (It has to be in C#)

[Sychotix]

Open the file and parse it. Simple.

[petergm]

The thing is that I need the application to read the file. So I can easily just change the file if I want it to do something else.

---------- Post added at 06:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:53 PM ----------

I want it to read different "profiles"

[Sychotix]

Yes, like I said. Open the file and parse it. Google if you don't know how to do that... its extremely simple.

[hp94]

       public static void WriteToFile(string stringToWrite)
        {

            TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("FileName", true); //save AND append, don't rewrite it each stream write - false rewrites

            tw.WriteLine("[" + DateTime.Now + "]: " + stringToWrite);


            tw.Close();
         }

        public static string ReadFromFile(string fileName)
        {
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(fileName);

            string file = reader.ReadToEnd();

            reader.Close();

            return file;
        }

Here's a snippet from one of my projects.

For parsing inside a text file, you probably want to use try-catch-finally and always close the file (just as good practise). You should use Substring to cut away at your strings (since the streamreader goes line by line it's very easy just to use IndexOf in whatever format you want (such as Press|x|y|z or p|x|y|z or whatever). If you want something advanced (or just to learn), look into regular expressions.