Txt file data into array

[moose333]

Hello

I have a txt file with multiple values in six different columns.
What I need to do is get each column of data and place them into individual arrays for later use. Also once I have the data I need to convert the arrays into integers.

This is the contents of the txt file.

[HRData]
97	117	0	-117	0	50
97	117	0	-117	0	50
97	183	0	-117	0	50
94	183	55	-117	34	50
95	210	56	-117	84	4931
95	207	59	-117	113	5438
95	196	57	-117	125	5944
97	248	56	-117	125	5944
98	255	64	-117	141	5432
100	252	64	-117	141	5432
101	248	79	-117	147	5444
102	237	82	-117	146	6456
104	235	82	-117	142	6457
105	247	84	-117	134	6458
106	261	87	-117	146	7220
106	268	87	-117	146	7220
107	281	91	-117	152	7475
108	292	95	-117	161	7733
109	297	98	-117	173	8245
110	301	101	-117	179	7733
111	299	103	-117	186	6966
112	297	106	-117	193	6445
113	294	105	-117	200	6706
115	293	104	-117	190	6703
116	294	103	-117	191	5685
117	297	105	-117	193	5688
118	294	105	-117	193	5432
118	293	103	-117	206	4922
119	293	103	-117	207	4914
120	294	104	-117	201	5678

I have currently been trying to catch each line of data into individual arrays and then split them up but I've failed dramatically.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[pitic]

this is not the best practice but it gets the job done if you need it fast.

ArrayList ar1 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList ar2 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList ar3 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList ar4 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList ar5 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList ar6 = new ArrayList();
string filePath = "file.txt";
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filePath);
while (sr.ReadLine() != null)
{
    string[] line = sr.ReadLine().Split("\t".ToCharArray());
    for(int i = 0; i < line.Length; i++)
    {
        ar1.Add(line[i]);
        ar2.Add(line[i + 1]);
        ar3.Add(line[i + 2]);
        ar4.Add(line[i + 3]);
        ar5.Add(line[i + 4]);
        break;
    }
 }
sr.Close();

This assumes you know the number of columns in the text file. If you later need to use the values from the array as integers just use Convert.ToInt32(ar1[0]) and so on.

[moose333]

Thank you, worked perfectly.