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Read and parse a CSV file into an array of rows and columns in C#

The following PopulateCsvIntoArray method used to read the CSV file into a two-dimensional array of strings. I have included explanation of method lines, wherever needed. /// <summary> /// Populate the CSV file into an array, /// We assume that every line has the same number of fields and there may be blank lines. /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> private string [,] PopulateCsvIntoArray() {     // Get path of CSV file.     var path = Server.MapPath( "~/Folder_Name/testfile.csv" );     // Get the file's text using ReadAllText method.     string fileData = System.IO. File .ReadAllText(path);     // Split CSV data into lines.     fileData = fileData.Replace( '\n' , '\r' );     string [] lines = fileData.Split( new char [] { '\r' },         StringSplitOptio...