title: Reading and parsing integers from a text file
body: <p>I'm trying to get a line of integers from a text file and parse them into separate variables. The text file is set up like this:</p>
  
  <p>ID:HP:MP:STR:WIS:SPD:GOLD:XP</p>
  
  <p>0:100:50:10:5:12:5:10</p>
  
  <p>I want to split them with the : symbol in between each. One of the problems I'm having with this is being able to read the file line by line as strings, parsing them, and then storing the parsed strings as ints. Here is the code I'm attempting to use so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>class monster
  {
      string line;
      string[] mstats;
      string[] mname;
      char[] delimeterChars = {':'};
      int id;
      int i = -1;
      int j = 0;
      int hp;
      int mp;
      int str;
      int wis;
      int spd;
      int gold;
      int xp;
  
      public monster(int id)
      {
          StreamReader stats = new StreamReader("monsterStats.txt");
          while(i != id)
          {
              i++;
              line = stats.ReadLine();
              mstats = line.Split(delimeterChars);
              j = 0;
              foreach(string s in mstats)
              {
                  if (j == 0) id = int.Parse(s);
                  else if (j == 1) hp = int.Parse(s);
                  else if (j == 2) mp = int.Parse(s);
                  else if (j == 3) str = int.Parse(s);
                  else if (j == 4) wis = int.Parse(s);
                  else if (j == 5) spd = int.Parse(s);
                  else if (j == 6) gold = int.Parse(s);
                  else if (j == 7) xp = int.Parse(s);
                  j++;
              }
          }
          curHp = hp;
          curMp = mp;
          curSpd = spd;
          curStr = str;
          curWis = wis;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the following error when this code runs:</p>
  
  <p>Input string was not in a correct format.
  It references this part of the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if (j == 0) id = int.Parse(s);
  </code></pre>