IO.File.ReadAllLines ANSI Characters (ASCII > 127)?
Feb 14, 2012
I'm using IO.File.ReadAllLines(FileName) to read all lines from text file to array of strings at once. Problem is, text lines include ANSI characters above ASCII value 127 (Scandinavian letters e.g. " (Ascii 196), (Ascii 246) and (Ascii 233). Array is build up nicely, but all chars above ascii value 127 are not shown right. How can I use ANSI character set with .ReadAllLines to correct this problem? In VB6 with "Open Filename For Input As #1 / Line Input #1, txtLine" there wasn't any problem. OBS: This is already solved, found the answer by myself:
Dim myEncoding As Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252) ' Windows-1252
Dim strLibrary As String() = IO.File.ReadAllLines(FileName, myEncoding)
Problem was to find right character set, which was Windows-1251 (ISO-8859-1)
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Feb 15, 2012
I'm using IO.File.ReadAllLines(FileName) to read all lines from text file to array of strings at once. Problem is, text lines include ANSI characters above ASCII value 127 (Scandinavian letters e.g. "Ä" (Ascii 196), "ö" (Ascii 246) and "é" (Ascii 233). Array is build up nicely, but all chars above ascii value 127 are not shown right. How can I use ANSI character set with .ReadAllLines to correct this problem? In VB6 with "Open Filename For Input As #1 / Line Input #1, txtLine" there wasn't any problem.
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Jan 27, 2011
I have .txt file with ANSI encoding format which is generated from Japanese OS.
so it has Japanese Characters in ANSI txt file.. i don't know how japanese characters allow in ANSI txt file..
My doubt is that
How to read all language characters from ANSI txt file. That txt file will contain any characters like English,Japanese,Chinese,Numbers etc... ( Any kind of characters )
I want to read that characters as it is in file..
Dim sr As New StreamReader(_FilePath)
While Not sr.EndOfStream
MsgBox(sr.ReadLine)
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Is there any general way to read all types of characters with ANSI format ?
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Aug 7, 2009
So I have an ASP.Net (vb.net) application. It has a textbox and the user is pasting text from Microsoft Word into it. So things like the long dash (charcode 150) are coming through as input. Other examples would be the smart quotes or accented characters. In my app I'm encoding them in xml and passing that to the database as an xml parameter to a sql stored procedure. It gets inserted in the database just as the user entered it.
The problem is the app that reads this data doesn't like these characters. So I need to translate them into the lower ascii (7bit I think) character set. How do I do that? How do I determine what encoding they are in so I can do something like the following. And would just requesting the ASCII equivalent translate them intelligently or do I have to write some code for that?
Also maybe it might be easier to solve this problem in the web page to begin with. When you copy the selection of characters from Word it puts several formats in the clipboard. The straight text one is the one I want. Is there a way to have the html textbox get that text when the user pastes into it? Do I have to set the encoding of the web page somehow?
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May 9, 2011
I'm working on decoding a NMEA sentence that is a compressed 8-bit string. I'm having a very hard time of wrapping my head around the bit manipulation needed to convert this string. If someone could get me started with this it would be great.
Here is the incomming string:
!AIVDM,1,1,,A,14eG;o@034o8sd<L9i:a;WF>062D,0*7D
and here is the expected output:
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Jan 27, 2012
what would be the optimum code in VB2010 that check a file to determine:
1) is it a text file, and
2) if it is a text file, does it contain any non-ASCII characters
Note that LF, CR, and EOF would be expected, and should not be flagged. I can think of 3 - 4 ways to do it, but there may be a 'best' way in terms of simplicity and speed.
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Feb 26, 2012
I have an app that I have been recoding in vb.net formerly written in VB6. In this app I use some ASCII control codes such as ACK NAK ENQ US RS EOT. The VB6 app uses the CHR() function with the proper ASCII codes to handle these but in recoding I would like to use something more meaningful and descriptive than CHR(4) for example.
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Jul 26, 2009
is there a way to convert characters to 7BIT ASCII with .NET?
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Mar 9, 2009
reading special characters within my VB code. ASCII code Char(34) = " works fine but Char(60) = < and Char(62) = > are not being read.
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node.FirstChild.InnerText = Chr(60) & "httpRuntime executionTimeout=" & Chr(34) & "999999" & Chr(34) & " maxRequestLength=" & Chr(34) & "2097151" & Chr(34) & "/" & Chr(62)
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May 19, 2010
I'm programming in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2008. I need to define a string literal containing the character "÷" equivalent to Chr(247). I understand that internally VS uses UTF-16 encoding, but when the source file is written to disk it contains the single byte value F7 for this character.
This source file is processed by another program that uses UTF-8 encoding by default, so it fails to interpret this character correctly, attempting to combine it with the following single-byte character. What encoding would correctly interpret the single byte F7 as the single character ÷?
Alternatively, is there a way of expressing a non-ASCII literal that uses only ASCII characters - like using some kind of escape sequence?
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Jun 17, 2009
I'm using this code to return some string from a tcpclient but when the string comes back it has a leading " character in it. I'm trying to remove it but the Len() function is reading the number of bytes instead of the string itself. How can I alter this to give me the length of the string as I would normally use it and not of the array underlying the string itself?
Dim bytes(tcpClient.ReceiveBufferSize) As Byte
networkStream.Read(bytes, 0, CInt(tcpClient.ReceiveBufferSize))
' Output the data received from the host to the console.'
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Len() reports the number of bytes not the number of characters in the string.
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Apr 24, 2009
I want to explicitly inform my user that they are not allowed to use any characters from the extended ascii character set (128-255). When I try to create a string of these values using the following [Code] It outputs them fine, with the exception of a bunch of blanks in certain areas(I am assuming these characters are unprintable), but I noticed that when I hover over the value of sVal in the VS, the tooltip/quickview of the value is written nicely on one line. Any ideas how to remove characters that would appear to be blank spaces (unprintable) when outputting this list?
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Jul 19, 2011
I am using StreamWriter and StreamReader in VB.NET 2008 Express to read and write ASCII text files. When I create the file and later read it, there is no problem, because I use System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 on both the write and read sides, so extended text is handled without problem. But sometimes, I have text files come in that are just straight 8 bit ASCII without the Unicode BOM... and they get a lot of junk when I try to read in anything with extended ASCII characters in it. It seems like the 8 bit extended characters are translated into multi-byte codes, and since they are filenames, of course, that doesn't work. Since the filenames just have straight 8 bit ASCII filenames. I have tried all sorts of encodings, and nothing seems to work.
The most common character that causes a problem is an "a" ... it is used in a lot of proper names. The funny thing is that sometimes is seems to workout... is there a way to read these types of text files? Some way to just tell StreamReader not to decode the text, just treat it as straight plain 8 bit ASCII text (with the old IBM PC mapping, I think). The one thing that works is to manually edit the input, replacing the extended characters with their un-accented partner and then renaming the files to match the new spelling. Maybe I should just go to read them as byte input and breaking the lines apart in my code.
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Sep 25, 2009
I'm an undergraduate student from Singapore University, would like to enquire you on how to convert character codes to ASCII codes using visual basic. regarding the codes on how to build it as I need it for my semestral project
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Oct 12, 2009
I have made an application in VB 6.0.In this application ,i am connecting one controller through serial port to laptop.I have used MSOMM control for this purpose.Controller is sending data as a string .On VB 6.0 applicaton in laptop ,i am getting data displayed in one text boxall in ASCII code/characters.Total chatacters in string are 61.My problem is this that all 61 characters are comming in one text box.I want thateach character should come in seperate text box so that i can be able to display them individually,i.e. 61 characters and 61 text boxes.
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Jul 15, 2010
i have a problem a in vb.net in Windows Vista Basic environment, while using the chr(0) it gives an empty string, while in windows XP chr(0) gives the following character am wonderign why in windows vista it can't result to the same thing actually it amounts to NOTHING as the result.
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Oct 28, 2009
I am using "For Each S As String In IO.File.ReadAllLines(filetoUse)" to read a file. how acn use EOF with IO.File?
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Oct 9, 2008
How to correctly convert string containing upper ASCII characters to byte array besides looping through each character and filling the array using AscW(chr)?I know I can do something like:
Code:
Dim bSourceData As Byte() = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.GetBytes(sourcedata)
But this only works for lower ascii characters (0-127).Instead of ASCIIEncoding I can specify encoding myself (System.Text.Encoding.Getencoding(encoding).GetBytes(sourcedata)). But I have to specify correct encoding in this case, otherwise most of special characters are converted to "?". What should I do if I don't know the encoding?
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Feb 14, 2012
I have a program written in VB.NET and I have a textbox for the RFID tag (which is in ASCII format) and then convert it to a simple text format to be saved to my database. How can I convert ASCII to plain text to save to my database?
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May 30, 2010
Okay so all i want to do, is to write something in a richtextbox then saving the text, as a .txt file, with ANSI encoding.
The title says to open and edit aswell, but i dont need thatm ingore that.
This is the code i have atm:
Save button:
Dim SaveFile As New SaveFileDialog
SaveFile.FileName = ""
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Aug 21, 2009
Im trying to use File.ReadAllLines to read a DLL that has plain text. (the DLL is basically a text file)
Dim NewFile As New StreamWriter(Application.StartupPath & "NewFile.DLL")
File.ReadAllLines(Application.StartupPath & "NewFile.DLL")
I get 1 error, and I have a few questions
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May 17, 2010
In this readalllines part because my data is saved differently now it used to be like this
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But now i saved it in a single and more understandable line like this
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And i have afew ideas like using the split function and stuff to read the months but can i use the "|" and "," in the line at the same time? the first 3 section of the line is for user to know the year, month and day of the starting date of the chinese lunar year. and the following 1,30 is the first month with 30days.
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Feb 23, 2011
Returns whole lines, the odd occasion a word. any thing obvious wrong?
Private _word As String()
Private _i As New Random
Private Sub btnGetNewhangManWord_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
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Oct 18, 2009
Im trying to use File.ReadAllLines to read a DLL that has plain text. (the DLL is basically a text file) [code] The process cannot access the file '****DebugNewFile.DLL' because it is being used by another process.How do I use readalllines to find text? How do I use readalllines to only search a part of the text file?
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Jul 18, 2009
I need to write an application for receiving data (ascii characters) from microcontroller through the serial port in three separate parts. I've created three RichTextBoxes, but I do not know which commands I need to type. In first textbox I need to receive one byte... next six bytes need to be placed in second text box, and finally last seven bytes need to be placed in third textbox.
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Jun 29, 2010
I have a text file (CSV) approx 100k lines (8Mb). I want to search the entire file for a particular string eg, "apple" and for all lines containing the string to be printed in a text box. have successfully done this using streamReader to parse the CSV and check each element against the search word eg. apple. This has proven to be very very slow and I have read that the "ReadAllLines" method is much faster.
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Feb 27, 2012
Say I have a 5 GB file. I want to split it in the following way.
First 100 MB is on the file
The rest go some reserve file
I do not want to use readalllines kind of function because it's too slow for large files.
I do not want to read the whole file to the memory. I want the program to handle only a medium chunk of data at a time.
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Mar 31, 2010
I need to read and process a text file. My processing would be easier if I could use the File.ReadAllLines method but I'm not sure what is the maximum size of the file that could be read with this method without reading by chunks. I understand that the file size depends on the computer memory. But are still there any recommendations for an average machine?
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Dec 11, 2010
I am using Microsoft.VisualBasic.Fileio.TextFieldParser to parse a CSV file that was created with Excel 2003. The parser is working great with the exception that it is converting extended ascii values to question marks! So if the file content was:
± 3
The TextFieldParser is returning
? 3
I have tried all of the encodings in the System.Text.Encoding package with no luck. I thought I had it with UTF7 but it was dropping other characters like replacing the + sign with a space.
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Oct 19, 2011
Years ago when coding with VB6 and earlier, I used a file open command to create, read, and write a file that made it easy to store useful information.I believe it was binary and you wrote/read the data to a specific line in the file. When you opened the file with something like notepad, it just showed random ascii chars. When I needed a line of data, I could specify what line to load it from.
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