Is there a set function in vb.net that allows you to read a delimited file with text qualifiers? In the past I have used the split command but that does not allow you to take into account the text qualifiers.
View 1 RepliesBasically say I have a text file with the following contents:
"Tim", "USA", "1982"
"Jane", "Germany", "1980"
"Brad", "France", "1989"
Can I have a ListBox for each field, one listbox for Names, one for countries, one for years?
I'm busy with an applicaton which reads space delimited log files ranging from 5mb to 1gb+ in size, then stores this information to a MySQL database for later use when printing reports based upon the information contained in the files. The methods I've tried / found work but are very slow.
or is there a better way to handle very large text files?
I've tried using textfieldparser as follows:
Using parser As New TextFieldParser("C:logfiles estfile.txt")
parser.TextFieldType = FieldType.Delimited
parser.CommentTokens = New String() {"#"}
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Basically say I have a text file with the following contents:
"Tim", "USA", "1982"
"Jane", "Germany", "1980"
"Brad", "France", "1989"
I have been able to load a drop down meny with a file, but the file is comma delimited. I tried to use the split function to only read the first part of the file before the comma, but I'm getting an erroHere's what I'm doing:
Dim Arts As New IO.StreamReader(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory & _
"Artist.txt")
Do Until Arts.EndOfStream
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I am trying to open a text delimited database using the jet.OLEDB.4.0 driver. My connection string is as shown here:
Dim sConnectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;
Data Source=" & dataDir & ";
Extended Properties=""text;FMT=Delimited( )"";"
I have read that you either need to alter the registry, or to add a schema.ini file containing information about the delimiter in order to recognize the delimiter. My question is if there is any way to do this without altering the registry or adding a schema.ini file, as both of these are unfortunately not an option. The only solution I currently see is to split each row, is this the only way out.
I need to be able to read common delimited text that the user enters into a text box. For example the text box would look like this:1,200,02,200,04,120,1203,200,120I need to be able to read the lines and put the data into a multi-dimension array with all the first values in column 1, all the second values in column 2, and all the thrid values in column 3.
View 9 RepliesI am reading a text file (Pipe delimited) using .net script the sample file is .. first line is column names and second is data
Part Number|Rev|State|Type|Weight|PC Wt Units|Noun Phrase|Noun Phrase Description|Noun Phrase Modifier|Bore|Bore Type|Dynamic Capacity (kN)|Number of Rows|Number of Seals|Number of Shields|Outside Diameter|Type of Ball Bearing|Width-LC|Linear Dimension Units|Max
Housing Fillet Radius|Max Shaft Fillet Radius|Heat Treatment
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So Here i am getting columns up to "NounPhraseModifier" what ever the columns after that should be inserted into PROPERTIES column.
My customer requires text files to be written in the following format:
"adrian","sigamoney","01","1","B"
No matter what I do I get in file
adrian,sigamoney,01,1,B
I have tried split, replace, adding extra hyphens to string.
how to best go about this project. I have just been given the task of creating a program that will primarily be used to import and sum a excel or text file that is tab delimited. As a quick example the file would be in the following format:[URL]The problem is that I would need to store this information locally (unless you know better) because I need to be able to append information to this from a second (or third, fourth, etc...) file and re-sum it, lets say that this is the second excel file that I needed to sum:
[URL]
I would have to append the week5 and week6 columns and add the Neapolitan row to my summation. This program will then format the sums into a list of the different flavors and the sums of all products sold during the total weeks and output to a text file.I have informed my employer that it would be easiest to do this with a VB script in excel, however, they are adamant that they want this done in VB.NET with a GUI.
I need to dump a bunch of delimited data to Excel. In VB6 days, I would save the data to a text file, then use ExcelApp.ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add (blah blah blah...) to import the data to Excel (I got this code from recording a macro while manually importing a text file).In VB.NET (2005), QueryTables does not appear to be an option for ActiveSheet.I could take the long path and manually parse thru the data writing to individual cells - however if I could just import it, it would be much faster.Part of the issue is not being able to record a macro in Excel in .NET format.So my primary question is, how do I import a delimited text file in to Excel without having to manually parse the data into individual cells.Secondary question is any tips for not being able to have ready made examples (in VB .NET format) by recording a macro.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to import a TAB (NOt comma) delimited text file into a DataGridView. The following code works fine if I have a comma separated file. All I have to do is change the FMT to "Delimited".It just does not work with FMT=TabDelimited. All columns are read into single datatable column. The text file is ANSI text and I have double checked to make sure Tabs are tabs and not spaces, even exported a sample Tab Delimited file from Excel.Can this even be done using Text Driver? [code]
View 2 RepliesI am trying to use Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser for parsing any format of tab delimited text file that user may have and show the data in web page in tabular fashion.I have sample tsv file with text qualifiers such as quotes saved in different encoding styles for different platforms such as pc, unix, mac saved using textpad. and I am trying to parse these using TextFieldParser. It works for all PC files but fails for mac.
View 2 Replieshow to make a text conversion like the below pic -
1. the textbox 1 is multiline with an array of comma delimited and tab delimited text.
2. the textbox 2 is one line textbox
3. A,B,C,D,E,F,G is where the position of each string before / after conversion
I am working with a database that is used for managing program requirements ie text fields of varying lengths. The database program is capable of exporting data out in the form of tab and comma delimited files. I would like to see an example in vb.net 2003 of how I might be able to loop thru an entire delimited text file line by line isolating each tab delimited field to say a text box or a string variable.My ultimate goal is to be able to write this delimited data to a special spreadsheet application capable of dealing with text block sizes beyond the capability of Excel. So now I am interested in how to manipulate huge delimited text files in vb.net 03.
View 4 RepliesI'm attempting to read from a comma delimited file, the values are put into a structure (employeerecords) i want to know how i can access the separate sections of this structure i will provide my code so far, i apologize for the comments I'm making sure i know whats going on, I'm new to this, the code currently just dumps the whole file into a textbox, i would like to be able to access and manipulate the individual fields but i am at a genuine loss.[code]
View 5 RepliesSo I've been using VS2010 and haven't had too many problems transitioning over but I have an issue at the moment and I can't seem to find the answer...I have been using a little piece of code to insert comma delimited files to a database, which works great.Today, I received a Tab Delimited file from a client....obv I could edit, replace tabs with commas and move on but I want to know the right way to do this so I feel accomplished I've tried two ways so far1. This is the code I use for comma delimited with a slight change for the tabs -- PF refers to a class module that has the functions I use to get files and parse file paths
Dim Conn as New ADODB.RecordSet
PF.InputFile = PF.GetFile("Select LMR Demo File", "")
conn.Execute("SELECT * INTO [tmp_lmr] FROM [Text;Database=" & PF.InitLoc &
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Reading from many text files
View 7 RepliesDim fs As System.IO.FileStream
Dim r As System.IO.BinaryReader
Dim buffer(500) As Char
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I thought this code would result in me filling 'txt1' with a bunch of header details [URL] and then the raw audio as binary.
But what actually happens is I get: "RIFF$@�WAVEfmt "
Input File to read:
SAMPLE NO: 10S-02013
Moisture 10.1
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I am not getting the right output I need, as whenever it reads a line, it looses my sample numeber.
My problem is I have very large text files (approx 2GBs+).They have records in them based in one per line.Each line is not the same length and the data can be different lengths all the time.I am currently reading the file line by line, then splitting the data by common characters in the records. To process the full file it currently takes 3hours. This is way too slow for its purpose.
View 7 Repliesfind sample code to "read" a text file from a web server? This is the file: [URL]
I want to be able to evaluate if it contains some specified text... How can I refer to this file using VB.net and store it in a string variable?
Here's an example of what I want to do:
boolean aaa = false
'The following is located in the "tick" event handler of an activated timer with an interval of 600000 ms
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I want to be remotely command all of my programs do something like this, all I have to do is to change the text in the text file to "now"
so i have it so that the user input three initials and presses an enter button. Then it goes into a listbox where theusers initials and game score enter. I then have it transfer to a text file. all this works but i need some code toun through the text file and arrange them from highest to lowestheres my current "HighScore" codei know its going to be a for loop but im a beginner in vb and it would be so much easier in java button1 is the enter buttonbutton2 is the save button that saves to a text file
Imports System.IO
Public Class HighScore
Dim objStreamWriter As StreamWriter
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I am trying to open a text file and read data based on what the user types, but am having problems because of the Input past End of File errors.
View 4 RepliesI want to read a tab delimited file so i set up a data reader with the following connection string: [Code] However when I do this it doesn't seem to delimiter at the tab characters (I cannot work out why it is breaking up the data where it is). the first few lines of the csv are in the attached "dbamstr.txt" - the select statement I am running is: "SELECT * FROM dbamstr.txt".
View 3 Repliesi have a stream reader reading a csv comma delimited file, its skipping every second line though if i edit the file and enter blank lines in between, it reads them correctly
View 6 RepliesAn application that my company uses stores report files with a .dat extension for use with their software. These files can be opened in notepad and the basic report information can be seen as text. I am attempting to write an app that opens and reads data from these .dat files and displays it in a checked listbox. My hangup thus far is that I can't figure out how to read the data from the .dat files since they are not .txt files. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I am trying to find a way of looping through a .resx file that contains English words and replacing them with the translated equivalent.
I have used a ResXResourceReader to read the file
Any fast way to read/search very large text files. I found this post for VB6, but I don't have the slightest clue what any of it means. [URL]. How to read/search huge files (up to a few GB and 20+million lines).
View 3 RepliesI need to figure out how to read a TXT file as an input type and read it one line at a time, but instead of displaying the text,it will find a keyword in the user typed text and display an answer from the text file. I already know how to do everything but get it to read the input file properly, line by line.
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