How to parse command line output from c#?

Question

I want to execute an application(command line application) from the C#... and I want after executing this application and providing the input to it, I want to parse the output that will result it. Since, it will output many things, and I want to take, just the things that I need it from it...

How can I do that ??

How can I get the output in the c# and then take only the things I need it from it ??

For executing the command line in C#... I'm thinking to use "Jeff MC" way, that he explained it in this thread How To: Execute command line in C#, get STD OUT results

Thanks alot

Answer 1

There is one more way of getting all the output as events as and when they are output by the other console application cmd_DataReceived gets raised whenever there is output and cmd_Error gets raised whenever there is an error raised in the other application.

If you want to parse the output, probably handling these events is a better way to read output and handle errors in the other application as and when they occur.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace InteractWithConsoleApp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ProcessStartInfo cmdStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
            cmdStartInfo.FileName = @"C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe";
            cmdStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            cmdStartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
            cmdStartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
            cmdStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            cmdStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

            Process cmdProcess = new Process();
            cmdProcess.StartInfo = cmdStartInfo;
            cmdProcess.ErrorDataReceived += cmd_Error;
            cmdProcess.OutputDataReceived += cmd_DataReceived;
            cmdProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
            cmdProcess.Start();
            cmdProcess.BeginOutputReadLine();
            cmdProcess.BeginErrorReadLine();

            cmdProcess.StandardInput.WriteLine("ping www.bing.com");     //Execute ping bing.com
            cmdProcess.StandardInput.WriteLine("exit");                  //Execute exit.

            cmdProcess.WaitForExit();
        }

        static void cmd_DataReceived(object sender, DataReceivedEventArgs e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Output from other process");
            Console.WriteLine(e.Data);
        }

        static void cmd_Error(object sender, DataReceivedEventArgs e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Error from other process");
            Console.WriteLine(e.Data);
        }
    }
}