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.

	public class ActiveEmployer
	{
	public ActiveEmployer(string line)
	{
	this.Line = line;
	if (line.Contains("==")) return;
	var match = new Regex(@" \d\d\d\d\d? ").Match(line);
	this.Identification = match.Value.Trim();
	}
	public string Identification { get; set; }
	public string Line { get; set; }
	}

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	var configBuilder = new FileRepositoryConfigBuilder(".")
	.WithFileExtension(".txt")
	.Build();
	using (var fileRepository = configBuilder.BuildRepository())
	{
	var activeEmployers = fileRepository.GetAll<ActiveEmployer>();
	foreach (var activeEmployer in activeEmployers)
	{
	if (activeEmployer.Identification == null) continue;
	// Do some stuff with the activeEmployer.Identification
	}
	}

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