Convert Flat Text file into XML

Whoops! Made a little mistake. Here is the good working version :) using System; namespace ConsoleTesting { class Start { static void Main(string[] args) { /* * string arrays for easy tag retrieval */ string[] states = new string[]{"" ,""}; string[] state = new string[]{"" ,""}; string[] ftag = new string[]{"" ,""}; string[] ttag = new string[]{"" ,""}; string[] stag = new string[]{"" ,""}; //putting all tags in a 2 dimensional array string[][] tags = new string[][]{states ,state ,ftag ,stag ,ttag}; /* * baseText for one . * I used a two dummy characters '^' at the beginning of the line. * I did this because we initialize the int i in the for loop * to 2. Because else we retreive the tag from the array * instead of */ string baseText = "^^AK^ALASKA^0.0000000.0000001994010102"; //split the baseText into a array. string[] baseParts = baseText.Split('^'); //beginning of the xmlText. So we enter the tag etc.. string xmlText = string.Empty; xmlText = tags[0][0] + "\n"; xmlText += tags[1][0] + "\n"; //iterate through the data and places it between the tags. for(int i = 2; i < baseParts.Length; i++) { xmlText += string.Format("{0}{1}{2}" ,tags[i][0] ,baseParts[i] ,tags[i][1]) + "\n"; } //end of xmlText. So we append the tag xmlText += tags[1][1] + "\n"; xmlText += tags[0][1]; Console.WriteLine("-----------------------"); Console.WriteLine("Plain text was:"); Console.WriteLine("-----------------------"); Console.WriteLine(baseText); Console.WriteLine("\n-----------------------"); Console.WriteLine("Converted to xml:"); Console.WriteLine("-----------------------"); Console.WriteLine(xmlText); Console.Read(); } } }

Here is something to look at. This little console app converts one string of plain text into xml. using System; namespace ConsoleTesting { class Start { static void Main(string[] args) { /* * string arrays for easy tag retrieval */ string[] states = new string[]{"" ,""}; string[] state = new string[]{"" ,""}; string[] ftag = new string[]{"" ,""}; string[] ttag = new string[]{"" ,""}; //putting all tags in a 2 dimensional array string[][] tags = new string[][]{states ,state ,ftag ,ttag}; /* * baseText for one . * I used a dummy character '1' at the beginning of the line. * I did this because we initialize the int i in the for loop * to 1. Because else we retreive the tag from the array * instead of */ string baseText = "1^AK^ALASKA^0.0000000.0000001994010102"; //split the baseText into a array. string[] baseParts = baseText.Split('^'); //beginning of the xmlText. So we enter the tag string xmlText = tags[0][0] + "\n"; //iterate through the data and places it between the tags. for(int i = 1; i < baseParts.Length; i++) { xmlText += string.Format("{0}{1}{2}" ,tags[i][0] ,baseParts[i] ,tags[i][1]) + "\n"; } //end of xmlText. So we append the tag xmlText += tags[0][1]; Console.WriteLine("-----------------------"); Console.WriteLine("Plain text was:"); Console.WriteLine("-----------------------"); Console.WriteLine(baseText); Console.WriteLine("\n-----------------------"); Console.WriteLine("Converted to xml:"); Console.WriteLine("-----------------------"); Console.WriteLine(xmlText); Console.Read(); } } } I hope this will help you further :) Good luck