Thursday, January 24, 2013

CacheRepository Use Case - Reading From (Somewhat) Unstructured Text File

Yesterday I was given a text file with a rather weird format that contained several hundred lines like this.



I needed to pull out the first sequence of numbers after the "work place name". I was able to use CacheRepository for this quite easily. I created an entity with the same name as the text file. Then it was just a matter of parsing a string (line) to get out the data I wanted.

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