reading csv into array

Hello Folks,
I want to read information in a text file and then display it in a message box. I have both an employees class with a constructor and my form with the streamreader and arrays. I'm stuck at pulling the information out of the arrays. Any ideas? Here is my code

"amespace Employee_Homework
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string[] strTemp;

StreamReader sr;
sr = File.OpenText("file.txt");
Employees newEmployee;
while (sr.Peek() != -1)
{
strTemp = sr.ReadLine().Split(',');
newEmployee = new Employees(Convert.ToString(strTemp[0]), Convert.ToString(strTemp[1]), DateTime.Parse(strTemp[2]), Decimal.Parse(strTemp[3]));
MessageBox.Show(newEmployee.ToString());

}
}
}
}"


and my class:


class Employees
{
string e_name = "";
string e_position = "";
DateTime hire_date = Convert.ToDateTime("dd/mm/yyyy");
decimal e_salary = 0;


public string EmpName
{
get { return e_name;}
set { e_name = value; }
}

public string EnmpPosition
{
get { return e_position; }
set { e_position = value; }
}

public DateTime DateHired
{
get { return DateTime.Parse(e_position); }
set { hire_date = value; }
}
public decimal EmpSalary
{
get { return e_salary; }
set { e_salary = value; }
}

public Employees(string newName, string newPosition, DateTime newDate, decimal newSalary)
{
e_name = newName;
e_position = newPosition;
hire_date = newDate;
e_salary = newSalary;
}
}
}

Not entirely sure what your question is, but I'd imagine the following line will cause you runtime problems...

DateTime hire_date = Convert.ToDateTime("dd/mm/yyyy");

as it'll have a problem parsing that string as a valid date (it's a date format, not a date). Since your Employees (plural - why?) class takes a datetime in the constructor, why bother with the declaration assignments at all? In this case with such a simple class you could use the member assignments in the constructor.

Also it seems to me you want to override string ToString() display whatever string representation of the Employees class you want - something like this:

public override string ToString()
{
return e_name + " " + e_position; // etc etc etc
}

replace this line:
string[] strTemp;

with

Code:

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ArrayList strTemp  = new ArrayList();

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