I wrote an XmlReader which configurably read from fixed-width files. I could read through 20Mb of data in 5 seconds on my puny laptop.
This is pretty easy to do. Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Urs Eichmann > Sent: 29 April 2002 15:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET] Copy Struct members to a flat file? > > > I have got a struct whose members consists only of fixed-length > Strings. I > want to write them out into a flat ASCII file with fixed length fields. > Later I must be able to re-read the flat file and put the data > back into an > ArrayList of those structs. > > Back in (I won't say "good old") VB6 days, I could use Put and > Get with user > defined Types (= .NET structs) for this. Is there an easy way (OTHER THAN > manually writing out every member) to accomplish this? > > BTW, I know I could use Serialize and Binary or XML files, but due to > reasons which are out of my influence, it HAS to be a fixed length ASCII > text file. > > Thanks for any suggestions > > Urs > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
