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A simple implementation of a CSV Writer in C#
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using System; | |
using System.Collections.Generic; | |
using System.ComponentModel; | |
using System.Linq; | |
using System.Reflection; | |
using System.Text; | |
namespace Utilities | |
{ | |
public class CsvWriter | |
{ | |
public static string ToCsv<T>(IEnumerable<T> objectsToExport) | |
{ | |
var sb = new StringBuilder(); | |
var props = typeof (T).GetProperties(BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance); | |
for (int i = 0; i < props.Length; i++) | |
{ | |
var prop = props[i]; | |
if (i > 0) | |
{ | |
sb.Append(","); | |
} | |
string propertyName = prop.Name; | |
var firstDescription = prop.GetCustomAttributes(typeof (DescriptionAttribute), true).Cast<DescriptionAttribute>().FirstOrDefault(); | |
if (firstDescription != null && !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(firstDescription.Description)) | |
propertyName = firstDescription.Description.Trim(); | |
sb.Append(Enquote(propertyName)); | |
} | |
sb.AppendLine(); | |
foreach (var obj in objectsToExport) | |
{ | |
for (int i = 0; i < props.Length; i++) | |
{ | |
var prop = props[i]; | |
if (i > 0) | |
{ | |
sb.Append(","); | |
} | |
object propertyValue = prop.GetValue(obj, null); | |
sb.Append(Enquote(propertyValue.ToString())); | |
} | |
sb.AppendLine(); | |
} | |
return sb.ToString(); | |
} | |
private static string Enquote(string value) | |
{ | |
string result = value ?? String.Empty; | |
if (result.Contains("\"") || result.Contains(",") || result.Contains("\r") || result.Contains("\n")) | |
{ | |
result = String.Concat("\"", result.Replace("\"","\"\""), "\""); | |
} | |
return result; | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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