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User-2132497554 posted

Hi Folks,

Here is my simple code as below:

  static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            List<Experience> listExperience = new List<Experience>();
            Experience experience = new Experience();
            string[] lines = {"Experience","Google (Employers Name)","Software Engineer (Job Title)" ,"2015","2016", "Vodafone (Employers Name)", "Software Engineer (Job Title)" , "2013", "2014"};

            foreach(string item in lines)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(item);
                //experience.CompanyName = item;
                //listExperience.Add(experience);
            }
            //Console.WriteLine(listExperience);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

//In Models:
    public class Experience
    {
        public string CompanyName { get; set; }
        public string JobTitle { get; set; }
        public string FromYear { get; set; }
        public string ToYear { get; set; }
    }

The line of items seems ok but I want to display list inside a model (experience) and output like this:

[0] => {CompanyName = "Google (Employers Name)", JobTitle = "Software Engineer (Job Title)" , FromYear = "2015", ToYear = "2016" }
[1] = > {CompanyName = " Vodafone (Employers Name)", JobTitle = "Software Engineer (Job Title)" , FromYear = "2013", ToYear = "2014"}

How to list experience like the above output from a line of items? Any idea?

I am waiting for your response.

Thanks in Advance

Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:28 AM

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User475983607 posted

The design is very fragile and depends in order. You have to use standard head (and tail) pointers to frame the data. I'm not using a tail as you did not define one so the code just goes to the end of the string.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    List<Experience> listExperience = new List<Experience>();
            
    string[] lines = { 
        "Experience", 
        "Google (Employers Name)", "Software Engineer (Job Title)", "2015", "2016", 
        "Vodafone (Employers Name)", "Software Engineer (Job Title)", "2013", "2014" };

    //Console.WriteLine(lines.Length);

    int i = 0;
    int properties = 4;
    foreach (string line in lines)
    {
        i++;
        if(line == "Experience")
        {                   
            while (i < lines.Length)
            {
                Experience experience = new Experience();

                experience.CompanyName = lines[i];
                experience.JobTitle = lines[i + 1];
                experience.FromYear = lines[i + 2];
                experience.ToYear = lines[i + 3];

                listExperience.Add(experience);
                i += properties;
            }
        }

    }

    foreach (Experience ex in listExperience)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(ex.CompanyName);
        Console.WriteLine(ex.JobTitle);
        Console.WriteLine(ex.FromYear);
        Console.WriteLine(ex.ToYear);

        Console.WriteLine();
        Console.WriteLine("---------------------");
        Console.WriteLine();
    }

}

Marked as answer by Anonymous Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00 AM

Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:05 PM

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