File I/O And Registry :: Replacing Text On Specific Line Number?
Oct 2, 2011I am trying to figure out how to replace text in a text file on a specific line number. (for testing, line number 4).
View 6 RepliesI am trying to figure out how to replace text in a text file on a specific line number. (for testing, line number 4).
View 6 RepliesI need to be able to change a path inside a document ( a config file to a program) to the current directory of the application im creating in VB so the text file looks something like
Quote:
something=234
blabla=io
ServerRoot=C:Server
i need to change c:server
I have some large csv files (1.5gb each) where I need to replace specific values. The method I'm currently using is terribly slow and I'm fairly certain that there should be a way to speed this up but I'm just not experienced enough to know what I should be doing. This is my first post and I tried searching through to find something relevant but didn't come across anything.
My other thought would be to break the file into chunks so that I can read the entire thing into memory, do all of the replacements there and then output to a consolidated file. I tried this but the way I did it actually ended up seeming slower than my current method.
Sub Main()
Dim fName As String = "2009.csv"
Dim wrtFile As String = "2009.1.csv"
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i am a beginner in vb8 i have a text file named alarm.txt,sample alarm.txt file is shown below
can someone help me to read the alarm.txt file and extract data.for eg
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I've been writing a weight program for flooded pressure vessels and I'm having trouble retrieving the data from the text files I've been saving. I know how to write the data to the text file, but retrieving it with OpenFileDialog is not so easy for me.The user has individual text boxes that they input strings or numbers into and when they save the file, each text box input is written to one line in the text file. For example, the first text box is for the username, therefore the first line of text that is saved is the person's name, the second text box is the customer, thus the second line in the text file is the customer name, and so on.
(Actually, the first line of text in the saved file designates whether English units were used or Metric units because when the user retrieves the saved file, English units will open one form and Metric units will open a separate form, so some If...Then statement will need to occur).I need to be able to read the first line, have either my "EnglishForm"form open or my "MetricForm" form open, and then have each subsequent line of text be displayed in their corresponding text boxes. I know I need to use ReadLine or LineInput, but I don't have a clue what to do.Assuming the syntax I've displayed below would just magically work (if only life were that easy), it would look something like this
If FirstLineOfTextInFile = "English" Then
EnglishForm.Show()
ElseIf FirstLineOfTextInFile = "Metric" Then[code]....
And so on...I read a lot of articles from the MSDN library and exhausted each link that I've looked through from Google and Bing, but most only retrieve data from the file to a single text box through some loop or streamreader and don't take into account multiple forms.
I am reading a text file line by line using StreamReader.Readline(). After reading a line i have to check whether some fields of the line which is read are present in the rest of the file or not. What i am doing is that after reading a line from the file i am passing the streamreader to check whether there are multiple entries. i am trying to use line.Length() to get the length of line, so using this length i can go back to the line
my code:
Dim pos as Long
sr = File.OpenText(filepath)
While sr.Peek() <> -1
[code]....
my problem is that it is not giving me the expected line or it is skipping some part of the line.how can i return back to my line?
i am reading a text file line by line using StreamReader.Readline(). After reading a line i have to check whether some fields of the line which is read are present in the rest of the file or not.What i am doing is that after reading a line from the file i am passing the streamreader to check whether there are multiple entries. i am trying to use line.Length() to get the length of line, so using this length i can go back to the line
my code:
Dim pos as Long
My text file look like this[code]...
I want to extract those lines according to value in ( ).
I was wondering how I would go about replacing a specific line of text with different text, and then later reading a specific line of text (from the same file). The text file has a lot of lines, and basically the layout is like this:
Something1 Data I want to read
Something2 Data I want to read
Something3 Data I want to read
Each line has a specific word, and then after that word is the data I want to use for the form.
How to read from a line in vb .net, I need to do the following:
change the line in a text file
[Path] = "c: hiscertainpath"
With this line
[Path] = "c: hatother
ewerpath"
These paths will most certainly be different lengths, so I need to either replace what's in the quotes or erase the line completely and enter a new one, but in the same spot, not appended to the end of the document.
how I would read specific line in a text file.Is this possible, if not I would like to know so that I can make the extension in C#?
View 1 RepliesIs there anyway to read a specific line from a text file. Such as reading the tenth line of a text file?
View 3 RepliesI have been learning VB for about 3 months now at college and decided to enhance my skills by making my own project at home. My project is basically a game where you have to guess if the next number will be higher or lower than the previous version and you can place bets on it. I have done all of this ok but I wanted to create a high score system so that you could save your score.I can manage to write out to a text file ok so that it looks like this
Highscores
Name
Score
[code]....
etc. But I am not sure on how to read in a specific line. So for example I want lblHighscore1.text to equal line 3 of the text document (as vb counts the first line as 0) So far all I have is this;
Dim objReader As IO.StreamReader = New IO.StreamReader("C:UsersKarlDesktopHighScore.t xt")
lblHighscore1.Text = (objReader.ReadLine)
I am making a vb.net app and I need to know how to overight onto a specific line in a text file. For example:[code]Now, I want to completely overight the "B" to an "A" and the line I need to write on is "2" also, my application will produce dynamic text files as well so I wont always be able to know what line exactly to overight. So my question is, how do I write to a line when I know what line it is and how do I search for a specific line and overight that.
View 3 Repliesfriend of mine has no HTML knowledge so I'm attempting to write a program that replaces certain parts of a html file to suit his needs.I've edited the HTML file and marked certain parts with "tags" like this:
#IMAGEURL1# I have a textbox where he can copy + paste an image URL and hopefully the #IMAGEURL1# is replaced with the contents of the textbox.
So can someone please enlighten me to-as how to open a HTML file (there's no textbox to display the contents just yet, I'll add one if needed), find the specified text and then replace it with whats in a textbox.
I have two part in text file. Let say Part 1 and part 2. I want to write part2 in different file and part 1 in different file.
View 5 RepliesI know how to search a text file for a specific line, but what I don't know is then how to delete that line?My text file is set up as such:
021,Donovan,56 Eynesford Crescent,Bexley,SE5 1TR,09/08/1967,13 March 2012,Bronze
062,Fredrikson,6 Freil Road,Gravesend,GR9 TRB,12/06/1995,13 March 2012,Silver
So I know how to search for the 3 character integer at the beginning of each line, but how do I then delete this line?
I'm currently using this code
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form6
Private Sub SearchBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SearchBtn.Click
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I am currently writing a Login Script, and I am having trouble making StreamReader read a specific line in a text file. This is what I have so far (not the entire script, just the reader lines):
Dim path As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)
Dim file As String = (path + "LogDat.txt")
Dim sr As New IO.StreamReader(file)
Dim line1 As String = sr.ReadLine(1) '' Supposed to read line 1
Dim line4 As String = sr.ReadLine(4) '' Supposed to read line 4
Dim line9 As String = sr.ReadLine(9) '' Supposed to read line 9
I am trying to make the code edit the a line in a text file, but it ends up deleting all the text and add the line at the begging of the file.
Dim FILE_NAME As String = "config.conf"
Dim i As String
Dim Text(90) As String
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I need to read one specific line of a .txt file.. How do I do it?I don't know what item will be there so I can't search for a specific letter... It will be a textbox text.But I know that it will be the 3 line.Originally Posted by ExampleLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla rutrum risus et ante tempus pharetra. Integer lacus felis, interdum non elementum in, egestas et ante. Aliquam eget nulla sed lectus accumsan congue at dapibus massa. Etiam nisi arcu, vulputate nec venenatis sed, fringilla nec ipsum. Duis quam lectus, venenatis sit amet faucibus ut, eleifend at tortor. Proin dignissim he
View 5 RepliesOkay, so I've been looking on the web for a way to read only ONE line out of a text file. Recently I've gotten by by creating separate text file for each line (such as a text file named, "Username", another named "Password", instead of creating a single text file with both the user name and password.) Now I am faced with having to do this. I want a quick and easy way, VB won't let me do open file as input #1 for some reason. I just need the second line of text out of this text file. What is the quickest and easiest (and painless) way of doing this?
View 8 Repliesi am developing a software called Logon screen changer xp and i get this error [URL] what is the solution the program is created in vb.net 2008 with .net framework 2.0 and it changes a registry value and replaces a file and copies a file very simple but there are security issues with xp
View 11 RepliesI am writing a program that manipulates text file using console application. What I want to do is to delete 1 specific line based on the ID entered by the user.[code]My program should delete the line with the ID DR-02, but my program deletes items from DR-02 to DR-04 instead of DR-02 only.[code]
View 3 RepliesFile I/O and Registry :: replacing single filename in multiple directories and subdirectories
View 5 Repliesits like this if we think the original textfile like this [its meaning less] dim original as string = "myname is not thename wasthe notthe nameisnot nere!" i want to see what words are recurring, like name, the, was, not but i cant use split(), substring because they may even exist as combined words like thecat and i need to know the number of time it has recurred
View 1 Repliesi want to get the line number of a text file that contains a particular string data.
1. using the string data like str="book"
2. find if the string is part of the file
3. get the line numbers of where it occurs.
eg
filename=sample.txt
sample.txt contains
dance
book
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I CAN REPLACE A TEXT IN ANY FILE BUT I SHOULD READ THAT FIRST AND IN HEAVY FILE IT TAKE A LOT OF TIMe. I WANT REPLACE A LINE (I KNOW WHERE IS LINE IN A FILE(FIRST LINE)) WITH SOMETHING (LIKE NOTHING "" OR ANY THING ELSE).
View 2 Repliesi want to delete few lines from a big text file , normally this lines are at the starting of the text file , so it is possible that i can enter the line no from input box and the vb.net can delete that particular line number from the text file ,
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I'm new here, but have been in and out for a while. Past threads have been helping me along thus far.
I'm currently developing an app which essentially needs a way for me to search in a text box or file for a specific string, and extract the line on which that string appears on. It will be unique, and the syntax is the same on each line. It has basically 2 ID numbers, and is laid out like this:
123456|123456
So, I'd need to search for the first part before the |, and then get the line so I can get the bit after the |, which is the important bit for me.
When the user clicks the Process Files button, do the following:
Read and process the contents of each of the 6 files.
Each file contains data in a different format.
and display them in arrylist. In the list it should contain name of the file and number of person in the text file example below.[code]...