LINQ iterate through results -

i trying read following text file:

    author     {     name  xyz     blog  www.test.com     rating 123     }        author     {     name  xyz     blog  www.test.com     rating 123     }        author     {     name  xyz     blog  www.test.com     rating 123     }        author     {     name  xyz     blog  www.test.com     rating 123     } 

i using following snippet fetch author record:

  public static ienumerable<string> getauthors(string path, string startfrom, string endto)         {             return file.readlines(path)                 .skipwhile(line => line != startfrom)                 .takewhile(line => line != endto);         }     public static void dosomethingwithauthors(string filename)         {             var result = getauthors(filename, "author", "}").tolist();          } 

the above returns me 1 author details. kindly show me how fetch authors in 1 go popluate object. thank much!!

i suggest that, if file structure predicatable might use regex author details. objects want initialize not complex, can match author bit , take values regex match groups.

the regex match authors this:

author\s*{\s*name\s+(.*?)\s+blog\s+(.*?)\s+rating\s+(.*?)\s*} 

your values in group 1,2 , 3.

edit:

if doesn't make difference you, can use readtoend() method , can parse whole file content string:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamreader.readtoend(v=vs.100).aspx

as regex solution - check out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/twcw2f1c.aspx

an adapted version - might need tweaking in general should work:

string text = [yourinputfileasstring]       string pat = @"author\s*{\s*name\s+(.*?)\s+blog\s+(.*?)\s+rating\s+(.*?)\s*}";        regex r = new regex(pat, regexoptions.ignorecase | regexoptions.singleline);        match m = r.match(text);        var authors = new list<author>();       while (m.success)        {          var name = m.groups[1].value;          var blog = m.groups[2].value;          var rating = m.groups[3].value;          var author = new author(name, blog, rating);          authors.add(author);           m = m.nextmatch();       }