String manipulation

Question

I am trying to read in a CSV file and then use the data contained in the CSV file to insert data into a database.
I am programming in C#
in order to do this I set up a StringReader object, open the file and read the file to the end into a string.
To retreive each individual line I do a:
string[] tokens = text.split('\n')
which successfully splits up the text string into the tokens array, inserting single strings into each element.
After this I try to repeat the procedure in order to retreive single values out of the tokens[index] strings so as to insert them into a database; herein my problem lies.
so I have a string that looks something like this in each token array element:
"a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,etc"
I do virtually the same operation:
foreach(string s in tokens)
string parts[] = s.Split(',');
for(int i =0; i < parts.Length(); i++)
//insert values into database
The problem is here that splitting up each string into parts is giving me an empty array ... from what I understand it should give me an array of elements like so:
parts[0]: "a"
parts[1]: "b"
parts[2]: "c"
etc ...
any clues you could help me with would be greatly appreciated.
Lance

Answer 1

Have you looked at just using SQL Loader to load the data straight into the database? SQL Loader was born to do this sort of stuff.
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Mark A. Williams
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Author, Professional .NET Oracle Programming
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