从外部程序将数据读取到我的C＃WPF程序中

Question

I would like to read data from an external program (click) (a langenscheidt dictionary), it has thousend of entries in it and I want to read these key values into my WPF application(may be into a grid).

There is a folder. with some human unreadable files(" .prc, .prc.hdx,*.prc.idx)

\Paragon Software\Langenscheidt 7\dictionaries

I thought this could be useful, but I am note sure because the folder name leads me to the conclusion, that the data is stored in these files, but these file extensions obviously can not be read by "Kindle" or "AutoCad".

But I don't know where to start.( I found some results in google, but this didn't help me a lot.)

May be you could suggest me some good literature, keywords or good links to my problem ?

By the way, the link for the testversion can be found here click .

Answer 1

If those are text files (and small enough for you to fit them in memory) then you can just use:

string text = File.ReadAllText(@"C\Path\To\File.prc");

then parse your string however you need to.

There is also:

List<string> lines = File.ReadAllLines(@"C\Path\To\File.prc");

if line by line processing is easier to parse