Cobol files and C#

how exactly do you mean "read cobol files" ?

are cobol files plain files where you can view them from say notepad when you open a cobol file?

You can read any file using a StreamReader:

StreamReader theReader = new StreamReader("Filename.ext");

Then you can read the entire file:

string theContentsOfFile = theReader.ReadToEnd();

Before continuing, are you able to tell us what you mean by "reading cobol files" - how does a cobol file look like? (the source file). Is it "readable" to us humans if we opened the cobol source in notepad?

ahmedilyas at 2007-8-30 >