I'm creating my first command application in Visual Studio.
I was wondering what is the command to read lines from a batch file. I need to be able to read the first line of a batch file then call some method with the parameters I got from the first line, after that I need to be able to read the second line from a batch file and call the same method, and so forth until the end of the file.
I already know how to call methods. I just need to know how to read the batch file.
using(StreamReader batchReader = new StreamReader("path to batch file")) { string batchCommand; while(!batchReader.EndOfStream) { batchCommand = batchReader.ReadLine(); // do your processing with batch command } } A batch file is a text file, so you can do:
string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(filename); Or if you want to read lazily (available in .net 4):
IEnumerable<string> lines=File.ReadLines(filename); But since batch files are typically rather small, I'd most likely use ReadAllLines.
If you want the command line arguments passed to your application you get them using Environment.GetCommandLineArgs
