Splitting a text file where the information are separated in different lines - file

Question

So, I have a text file where the information are separated by the enter key (I don't know how to explain, I will paste the code and some stuff).
cha-cha
Fruzsina
Ede
salsa
Szilvia
Imre
Here's how the text file looks like, and I need to split it into three parts, the first being the type of the dance, and then dancer 1 and dancer 2.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
namespace tanciskola
{
struct tanc
{
public string tancnev;
public string tancos1;
public string tancos2;
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
#region 1.feladat
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("tancrend.txt");
tanc[] tanc = new tanc[140];
string[] elv;
int i = 0;
while (sr.Peek() != 0)
{
elv = sr.ReadLine().Split('I don't know what goes here');
tanc[i].tancnev = elv[0];
tanc[i].tancos1 = elv[1];
tanc[i].tancos2 = elv[2];
i++;
}
#endregion
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
Here is how I tried to solve it, although I don't really get how I should do it. The task is would be to display the first dance and the last dance, but for that I need to split it somehow.

Answer 1

As mentioned in my comments, you seem to have a text file where each item is on a new line, and a set of 3 lines constitutes a single 'record'. In that case, you can simply read all the lines of the file, and then create your records, like so:
var v = File.ReadLines("file path");
tancr[] tanc = new tancr[140];
for (int i = 0; i < v.Count(); i += 3)
{
tanc[i/3].tancnev= v.ElementAt(i);
tanc[i/3].tancos1 = v.ElementAt(i + 1);
tanc[i/3].tancos2 = v.ElementAt(i + 2);
}
Note: ReadLines() is better when the file size is large. If your file is small, you could use ReadAllLines() instead.

Answer 2

To split by the "enter character" you can use Environment.NewLine in .NET:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.newline(v=vs.110).aspx
elv = sr.ReadAllText().Split(new string[] {Environment.NewLine}, StringSplitOptions.None);
This constant will contain the sequence that is specific to your OS (I'm guessing Windows).
You should be aware that the characters used for newlines is different for Windows vs. Linux/Unix. So in the rare event that someone edits your file on a different OS, you can run into problems.
On Windows, newline is a two character sequence: carriage-return + line-feed (ASCII 13 + 10). On Linux it is just line-feed. So if you wanted to be extra clever, you could first check for CRLF and if you only get one element back from Split() then try just LF.