read a csv file in csharp

main.cs
using Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO;
using System.Collections.Generic;

// ...

string filePath = @"C:\example.csv";
List<string[]> rows = new List<string[]>();

using (TextFieldParser parser = new TextFieldParser(filePath))
{
    parser.Delimiters = new string[] { "," };
    while (!parser.EndOfData)
    {
        string[] row = parser.ReadFields();
        rows.Add(row);
    }
}

// Now you can access the rows variable containing the CSV data
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