Converting csv text file into Integers

[kiail]

Hello, I have a text file that I need to convert the list of numbers into integers. So far I'm just reading it in real basic(I've tried a lot of code before I came here, I usually do, but I'm still a noob/boob). I have two columns rating and frequency, each with about 5 numbers below them. I can read the file into a list box just fine into the windows forms using:

private void ReadButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            List<string> myList = new List<string>();
            myList = System.IO.File.ReadLines("f:\\numbers.txt").ToList();
            this.listBox1.DataSource = myList;
        }

How do I convert the numbers in the text to ints? It seemed easy at first, but it isn't when I don't know how(I've seen some discussions on how to do this in a console, but that gave me more problems than I knew what to do with)....all I know is I need to use the streamreader and split method to do this, then convert. Any help is appreciated. Hopefully one day I won't be the one asking questions ALL the time and I can start providing help to someone like me.

[thines01]

Can you give us an example of the layout of the file?
Basically, you split the incoming strings into numeric string segments and then call Integer.Parse() or Conver.ToInt16() on them.

[kiail]

I've got it figured out. Here is what I have:

`using System;


    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Data;
    using System.Drawing;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Windows.Forms;
    using System.IO;

    namespace ReadNumbersText
    {
        public partial class Form1 : Form
        {
            public Form1()
            {
                InitializeComponent();
            }
            /// <summary>
            /// Read Button(pulls text from txt file, 
            /// converts to int32, and prints in listbox)
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="sender"></param>
            /// <param name="e"></param>
            private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
            {
                List<int> responses = new List<int>();
                int[] frequency = new int[15];

                try
                {
                    using (StreamReader readFile = new StreamReader("f:\\numbers.txt"))
                    {
                        string line;
                        string[] row = new string[1];

                        while ((line = readFile.ReadLine()) != null)
                        {
                            row = line.Split(',');
                        }
                        for (int i = 0; i < row.Length; i++)
                        {
                            responses.Add(Convert.ToInt32(row[i]));
                        }
                    }
                }
                catch (IOException ioEx)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(ioEx.Message);
                }

                for (int answer = 0; answer < responses.Count; answer++)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        ++frequency[responses[answer]];
                    }
                    catch (IndexOutOfRangeException ex)
                    {
                        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
                    }
                }
                this.listBox1.Items.Add(string.Format("{0} {1}", "Rating", "Frequency"));
                for (int rating = 1; rating < frequency.Length; rating++)
                    this.listBox1.Items.Add(string.Format("{0,6}{1,10}", rating, frequency[rating]));
            }
        }
    }`
    This works good enough for me!=)

[kiail]

the layout is a 2 column 15 row output.