Arraylists

[santa101]

I have created a class and have four properties and I am reading the values from a CSV file and then assign them to the class properties and then trying to add the object to Arraylist.

But after the loop, the array list has got 5 items, but all items look the same!

// declaring the array list
            ArrayList objClaimData = new ArrayList();

            // creating an instance of the class
            clsClaimData datClaims = new clsClaimData();

            // declaring the variable for streamreader
            string file_name = "D:\\Bhagavan\\My Documents\\Visual Studio 2010\\Projects\\ClaimsReserving\\ClaimsReserving\\claims.csv";
            string textLine = "";
            string[] colval = null;

            // opening the file using the streamreader
            System.IO.StreamReader objReader;
            objReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(file_name);

            // looping thru the text file until all lines are read and stored in the arraylist.            
            while ((textLine = objReader.ReadLine()) != null)
                {
                    colval = textLine.Split(',');

                    datClaims.Product = Convert.ToString(colval[0]);
                    datClaims.OrginYear = Convert.ToInt32(colval[1]);
                    datClaims.DevYear = Convert.ToInt32(colval[2]);
                    datClaims.IncrementValue = Convert.ToDouble(colval[3]);
                    
                    objClaimData.Add(datClaims);
                    
                    Console.WriteLine(textLine);
                }

What is wrong with the above ? Please help. I am new to C#.

[Aimee Bailey]

Hey there, the problem I believe is that you need to create an instance of clsClaimData for each line, this should help:

 // declaring the array list
 ArrayList objClaimData = new ArrayList();
 
 // declaring the variable for streamreader
 string file_name = "D:\\Bhagavan\\My Documents\\Visual Studio 2010\\Projects\\ClaimsReserving\\ClaimsReserving\\claims.csv";
 
 foreach(string line in File.ReadAllLines(file_name))
 {
    string colval = line.Split(',');
    
     // creating an instance of the class (per line).
    clsClaimData datClaims = new clsClaimData();
    
    datClaims.Product = colval[0];
    datClaims.OrginYear = int.Parse(colval[1]);
    datClaims.DevYear = int.Parse(colval[2]);
    datClaims.IncrementValue = double.Parse(colval[3]);
    
    objClaimData.Add(datClaims);
    Console.WriteLine(line);
 }

All the best!

Aimee