Description: Parse a delimited text file into a list

Link: http://www.codekeep.net/snippets/ad44f11b-e00a-4bfa-9d61-ba360cf6b8ba.aspx

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO; //System.IO is not used by default

public List<string[]> parseCSV(string path)
{
  List<string[]> parsedData = new List<string[]>();

  try
  {
    using (StreamReader readFile = new StreamReader(path))
    {
      string line;
      string[] row;

      while ((line = readFile.ReadLine()) != null)
      {
        row = line.Split(',');
        parsedData.Add(row);
      }
    }
  }
  catch (Exception e)
  {
    MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
  }

  return parsedData;
}