At times us developers have to deal with delimited text files in our applications. Such files have been around since yonks and I often come across data import/export tasks where delimited files are used. Till now the common way in .NET has been to read each line and then extract data using some sort of creative string functions within for loops. But there is another way by using LINQ. In this tutorial I will show you how to use LINQ to read such data. By the end of tutorial you will appreciate how easy and logical it is to use LINQ for reading data from delimited text files.