SujaySarma.Data.Files.TokenLimitedFiles

This library makes it easy to work with token-limited flatfiles like: .CSV, .TSV, and .TXT files.

API

This library provides the following public-surface API:

Attributes

Name	Description
FileField	Attribute to indicate that a property or field in a class represents a column in a flatfile.

How to use

• Decorate your classes with the Container attribute to indicate that the class requires token-limited flatfile (de-)serialisation support.
• Decorate the properties or fields in the classes with the FileField attribute to indicate that they represent columns in the flatfile.
• Use the TokenLimitedFileReader to read flatfiles into your classes; and the TokenLimitedFileWriter to write out your classes to flatfiles.
• You may use the TokenLimitedFileContext to perform "connection-less" read/write operations.

NOTE: The TokenLimitedFileWriter or the TokenLimitedFileContext class methods do NOT offer any means to edit a line "in place". If you make changes even to a single field, you will need to write out the entire file. Support for in-place edits are NOT planned and are NOT part of any proposed future feature-set.

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