Overwrite Specific Line In Text File
Jan 12, 2010
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.
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Jan 16, 2011
I am trying to get a text file to be overwritten since it's already there. The thing is, that I'm not trying to overwrite a specific file. In fact, EVERYTHING must have the right name, or my project won't turn out right: http:[url]....However I don't have that problem any more because I solved it. Now my problem is much more simple. Again, I'm NOT trying to overwrite one specific file, so I couldn't say something like,
HTML
RmDir("C:KQQuestion1")
I need a way to overwrite any file name.
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Feb 16, 2010
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.
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Jun 8, 2011
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?
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Jul 26, 2011
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
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Aug 8, 2009
My text file look like this[code]...
I want to extract those lines according to value in ( ).
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Aug 12, 2009
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.
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Jul 31, 2011
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#?
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May 26, 2009
Is there anyway to read a specific line from a text file. Such as reading the tenth line of a text file?
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Nov 28, 2011
I 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)
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May 6, 2010
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.
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Jan 13, 2009
I 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
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Jul 26, 2009
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.
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Mar 15, 2012
I 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
[code].....
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Oct 15, 2011
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
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Apr 30, 2009
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
[Code].....
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Oct 20, 2010
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
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Jun 28, 2010
Okay, 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?
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Jan 15, 2012
I 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]
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Oct 2, 2011
I am trying to figure out how to replace text in a text file on a specific line number. (for testing, line number 4).
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Mar 11, 2010
I have a txt file that I need to read into a listview, but I need to read from a specific line in that file. Below is a sample of the txt file to read,
6400,3200,2,95.5,84,76.6,0
1,2,-20,15,0,0,0,"NO",0,0
TOTAL GPM= 6400 HWT= 95.5 CWT= 84.0 IWBT= 76.6 ALTITUDE= 0
CODE]...
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Oct 2, 2008
I was wndering if its possible to change specific data in a text file from VB.NET code? i want to use a save game feature, and update the score of the user currently logged in, but i dont know how to do this. Any ideas? my text files stores 4 fields from the user; Username, Age, Score and Password.[url]...
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Dec 10, 2010
I have a log file that is open and in use by another program, and I read it's contents with the following:[code]This works for reading the text from the file while it is still in use by the other program, however, immediately after this I need to truncate the text file (without deleting it) so that it is blank again. But the file will still be in use by the other program.[code]But I get the "in use by another application" exception. I've tried looking in StackOverflow and googling but I can't seem to find an answer, and I can't find a way to do this with filestreams either, or I would try to use Dim fs As New FileStream(FullPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.ReadWrite)
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Jul 9, 2009
I have been working on a project in .net. I can now write to a txt file using [code]What I need to do though is instead of writing new lines to the file is replace what is all ready there with new text.
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Feb 5, 2011
I have an SQL database, and 50 text files, and Visual Basic 2010 Premimum,I need to find a specific line of text in the text files and then take the next 37 lines of text and save them in my database. I need advice as to point me in the right direction
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Oct 20, 2010
I'd like to open a text file and not allow any other processes to write to it. I understand I can do this with the following FileStream:Dim fs As New FileStream(_FilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite, FileShare.Read)
Once I have access like this I need to read all of the lines (I will use a StreamReader(fs)) and then I will need to write to the file (I will use a StreamWriter(fs)).
The problem here is that the StreamWriter won't allow me to set the append mode to false (so I can overwrite all text in the file) when I use the filestream as a parameter instead of the file path. So all text written with the StreamWriter is appended onto the text which I don't want. If I use a StreamWriter with the file path (which will let me set append to false) as the parameter instead of the filestream it will be locked out because of the FileStream FileShare. How can I still have exclusive access to read and write to the file but still be able to overwrite the existing text (append mode false)?
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Jan 20, 2012
am facing overwriting file in window mobile 6 professional.bellow are my code.
when the system start loading:
PrivateSubForm1_Load(ByVal sende System.Object, ByVal System.EventArgs)HandlesMyBase.Load
[code].....
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Jun 28, 2010
I cant seem to figure out how to add text to a text file without overitting all of it. I am using:
Code:
File.WriteAllText
I guess I could read it, copy, and then write it all over. Is there a way to just add text to the end of the current text of a text file?
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Jul 29, 2009
I'm writing to a RichTextBox using the with command:
With RichTextBox
.AppendText("blablabla" & vbCrLf)
.ScrollToCaret()
End With
But sometimes I would like to overwrite what I've just written instead of writing it on the next line.
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Jun 6, 2011
I'm using DevExpress.XtraRichEdit (2010 2.8) My problem is, this control does not have some basic functionality as does the Standard RichTextbox Control that comes with VB.NET (2010). However it does have functions that the standard RichTextbox does not have. With that being said, I'm trying to create a procedure to go to a specific line in the control. The control does not have the same procedure as "Richtextbox.GotoLine" The procedure below works with a standard Richtextbox. Basically, I'm trying to create a procedure to go to a specific line in the richtext control.
If txtLine.Text <> "" Then
Dim MyText As MainForm.RichTextBox.Text
If MyText IsNot Nothing Then
[Code]....
how to go to a line of text in a regular textbox and maybe I can tweak it to work.
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