just characters? or a bit array?

they are characters

what's the problem?

how do i replace the csv file with a 2d array

the easiest way would be to read it fully, then rewrite it with the new content

yeah i can do that and replace it with a 1D array, but idk how with an 2D array

for 1D i do File.WriteAllLines("file.csv", lines);

you could just

string csv = File.ReadAllText(filename);
string array = csv.Replace(",", "");
File.WriteAllText(filename, array);

or the same for lines, you'd replace the commas with empties for each line

and how to replace with a 2D array

or split on commas, check if they are in fact 1 or 0, the string.join them back

what's that mean?

ill give an example

here is my csv file (in notepad)

i want to replace it all with a 2D array that is also 6x8

eg

that's not replacing with an array, that's parsing it as an array

replacing would mean writing to disk in this case

you can't write that to disk

i mean it is a file

and i do want to replace it

then save it

you want to save those as an array literal?

into a file?

may I ask why?

that just isn't something you'd ever do, because it makes no practical sense

ok so basically i have a cinema booking program and in the 6x8 array 0s represent empty seat and 1s represent a taken seat. While the user is booking seats the cinema will have some seats taken, then i want to save that array onto a csv file

so do you need to parse the csv into an array, or to format the array contents as a csv?

format the array contents as a csv

well then you need to join each line with commas with string.Join

if your array is a bool array, then convert each element to a string "0" or "1" first

its not bool theyre strings

then you need that string.Join, or use a for loop with a string builder and add the commas manually

how would i be able to do that

you call that function for every row

so like

string.Join(array[0..7])

but how for a 2D array

do that for every line

then write the lines into the file

idrk how to do that

look up how to use for loops