Read text file data and create a report with page headings, column headings.

Why can you not use a free and freely distributable third party solution like crystal reports?

Because on the face of it that seems a bit of a strange limitation.

Come to think of it.

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Output file will be passed to LRS Anyque file/report distribution system which will print and archive the report to an imaging system.

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If you have a reporting system you're passing this to then why isn't that doing the reporting?

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Is there a way to take advantage of the mainframe dataset definition?.

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That would kind of depend on what a mainframe dataset definition is and what you're actually trying to do.

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You have a tab delimited file.

You can use split:

string[] inputs = s.Split('\t');

That'll give you an array of the fields which you would refer to by index.

Not nice, but do-able.

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You can put whatever you like into a datatable and that can be in a dataset.

I would be more precise with an answer but I have no idea what you mean by a report heading from your description.

Once you have some stuff in a datatable which defines headings, what then?

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