Reading Text In VB?
Jul 18, 2011
To read a file i am using the following New to VB and I'm sure this is a basic question.To read a file I am currently using:
Dim fileReader As String
fileReader = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("C: emp est.txt")
MsgBox(fileReader)
It works fine but I would rather it just open the text file itself, how do I do this?I currently use this code for writing files and would like it similar for reading:
Dim owrite As System.IO.StreamWriter = System.IO.File.WriteText("c: emp est.txt")
owrite.WriteLine("TEST")
owrite.Close()
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Jan 2, 2010
I am working on a project in VB 2008 and need it to do this:Read first line from text file (using Openfile)Enter line into textbox on formDo some other codeThen Read second linefrom text fileEnter line into same text boxand loop until we have gone through text fileI am not sure how to read line by line from text file then enter it in textbox. I can open the Openfile and get the filename and everything, but I just am not sure how to read from it or enter that line into the textbox.Here is what I have, its not much but its a start:
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim FileReader As StreamReader
[code]....
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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 25, 2010
I'm trying to read a text file that contains info like this:
ACX-101-011 , J2168
BTXR-130A-013, D6733
AJ4-233-614, T8211
I want to split each line at the comma and write the left side to a textbox and the the right side to another textbox. I'm close, with the code below, but I can only post results from the first line in the file. How do I loop this and append the text results in each of the textboxes.
Dim TempFile As String
TempFile = "temp.txt"
Dim sw As StreamWriter
[Code].....
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Nov 27, 2007
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.
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Dec 15, 2010
I'm a little new to VB, and I'm in a class for it, but I'm trying to do something we aren't going to learn in the class (mostly out of sheer interest) and I need help. I'm trying to read lines from a text file into a listbox, each line representing a new item on the listbox. For example, if the text file reads: [code]I want to be able to take that as is and read it into a listbox, where those words would appear in the exact same fashion; as a list, each as separate items. I've looked at the Help stuff and learned (sorta) about delimiters... but the thing is I don't want to write my entire list in a continuous line separated by commas--I want it to keep reading each line, and moving on to the next, until there are no more lines left. I am thoroughly stumped, and would appreciate it SO much if someone could help. For a frame of reference, this is the point I'm at now with my code: [code]Note that when I run the program, all it will do is read the first line of text available and stop; once I press ENTER in a text file, it decides to stop reading.
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Jul 30, 2009
im trying to read a online txt file and its not working [code]but it has a uri error i think in doing it wrong but need help with how im doing it wrong, all i want to do is read the text from a file online not from the system should be easy.
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Jul 4, 2010
Usually, the text file that would need to be read and processed would be local (on the computer the program is run), but for this example, we need to get the data from an online text file.
I have searched on google for nearly an hour now and haven't found anything of any real use. One of the earlier projects we submitted used a similar target, and I managed to get it working fine, however I dont have the original source code with me and I cannot remember how I did it.
I believe I used a Net.WebRequest method of some sort, because I had tried using StreamReader and ended up with an URI error or something like that.
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Jun 10, 2010
i am trying to create a program what reads the information from 10 different text boxes and then saves the text to the 10 separate files (one with each bit of info in it)im stuck on how i will do this though, here is my save method:
Dim PRT As New String("") 'not sure how to get this info ("")
Dim TXTBX As New String("") 'not sure how to get this info ("")
If File.Exists("PatchHelperFiles\mods\fun\color\" & PRT) = True Then
[code]....
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Mar 30, 2012
I'm making a program that can read a game music file and able to add some texts after it.So far, this is my code:
For Each foundFile As String In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles("E:O2ChinaMusic", _
FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly, "*.ojn")
Dim fileName As String = IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(foundFile) 'Filename[code]....
My problem is for example, the game music file's title is "Puberty", as you can see, my code is:
StrItm(1) = title & " INPUT TEXT HERE"
but the only one that appear is the word "Puberty" AND NOT "Puberty INPUT TEXT HERE".
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Jan 25, 2010
I have a fixed width delimited text file, the data spans over several line. I do not know how to approach in reading this file and displaying its results to a gridview.
[Code]...
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Nov 29, 2009
How could i echo individual lines?, Like for example if i want to echo the hostname line, How could i just echo 'Christopher's Testing server', and not the hostname part too?
echo Executing Server Config...
lanmode 1
rcon_password changethis
password password321
maxplayers 20
[Code]...
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Jul 28, 2011
Can anyone tell me why this code isn't working? I am trying to read a textfile into a textbox with multiline = true. All i get is the first member of the list from the textfile. The rest is left blank.Public Class Form2
im myLines As New List(Of String)
Dim index As Integer = 0
Private Sub btnLoad_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
[code]....
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Jul 28, 2011
Okay so I am very new to visual basic I am currently using VB 2010 I know that this is not the correct forum but I figured it was the closest to it since there is no VB 2010.Anyways I am making a program for my Dad's company that can keep track of inventory so I need to store the info in a .txt and load it up etc. I currently am using a stream writer to write to the text and I got that down pat I am just having troubles loading it back up and putting the info in specific text boxes aka sorting or parsing? the information. I have looked at several tutorials and the problem is that I just simply don't know what I am looking at I've been tinkering with it for a couple hours now with no luck so I hope you guys could help me out .
Here is my current code. It is kind of useless because I have tried so many methods I thought maybe I could use a ReadAll function have it go to a string and parse from there hoping it would have been easier but it has not worked out for me so far.
[Code]...
^This above is just the output in test.txt and what will eventually need to get sorted into respective text/list boxes .
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Jun 10, 2011
why this doesn't work?
Public Sub LoadFile()
Dim file As StreamReader
Dim temp As String
[code].....
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Mar 9, 2009
Reading from many text files
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Apr 30, 2010
got this code where users created txt file with email address and password [code]
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May 29, 2012
I want to know how you would read in from a text file line BY LINE with timer and put it in a Listbox. Lets say I want to read this text from text file
1234232123
12342321
234223423421
23423233
Now i set the timer interval 300 and debug, i expect this to put each number in the listbox. I tried doing this but i failed
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Jun 18, 2009
I have an application that telnets into a server and we ping a bunch of IPs. What Im needing to do is it will automatically ping it like "ping iphere" the output looks like "64 bytes from machine&hostnamehere (iphere ): icmp_seq=0 ttl=121 time=60 ms. What Im needing to know is how I can read those lines then if it "iphere" matches the pinged ip it will update my txt file.
[Code]...
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Jun 26, 2010
I want to check if a textfile is in a CD, read the file, and if it contains the text "blahblah", do something. If it doesn't, MsgBox("Error!"). :P I only know how to open and close the CD drive. >_<;
[Code]...
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Jun 14, 2009
I am building a program to populate an Excel invoice template. The program works for the most part, except for one odd flaw. The program calls a module which first checks that two text boxes on a form have been completed. However, whilst the program does see when one of the text boxes has not been filled in (txtContact) it doesn't see the other (txtCustomer) even if I change the name of the text box to check it still only responds when the the other text box is empty.
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Public Class InvMgrForm
[Code].....
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Nov 26, 2009
Dim fs As System.IO.FileStream
Dim r As System.IO.BinaryReader
Dim buffer(500) As Char
[Code]....
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 "
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Sep 21, 2009
Basically what I'm trying to do is read a text file line by line. After each line is read, it will put each line into a separate text box. I've been trying to do this for a while and so far I haven't been able to. I tried using a for loop, but that just put all my lines in to one textbox.
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Feb 26, 2012
In my project i read text file line by line by checking with a specific word and store that line into textboxes.
My code id
Dim fName As String = " Z:\rdf1.txt" 'path to text file
Dim testTxt As New StreamReader(fName)
Dim allRead As String = testTxt.ReadToEnd() 'Reads the whole text file to the end
[Code].....
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Oct 14, 2011
Here is my code for splitting "," from the text file. But the problem is I don't know how to include looping in the code to make the code read the whole text file. when I run this code, it's only read the first line of the text file.
Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader("C:\drill.txt")
Dim data As String()
data = sr.ReadLine().Split(",")
[Code].....
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Jun 14, 2012
i have this simple code from a vb.net project:
Using sr As New StreamReader(NewSwitch.ActFolder & NewSwitch.ActSShowName)
worker.ReportProgress(LoadSwitchProgressType.Normal, "Loading Active SupportShow, size " & NewSwitch.ActSShowSize & "...")
NewSwitch.ActSShowData = sr.ReadToEnd
End Using
Obviously it reads a file - a 20M text file to be exact. Now if this 20M file is on my PC, it reads in about a second. If i open this same file in a text editor, such as Conext, its about the same.However, if this 20m File is on a network location, the Context text editor loads the file in about 1 min 40 seconds. I would have expected similar times with my vb.net code, but it took 7 minutes 45 seconds.I have no idea what the text editor uses to read a file, but i figure i must be able to get similar time in vb.net somehow.
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May 21, 2009
I am creating a hangman game for a class prject. I have done everything apart from randomising the word that is loaded in. I have tried a few different types of code but just can't seem to get it. I have tried this:
[Code]...
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Sep 16, 2010
I'm trying to create a program to read a file and create a table. Public Class Form1
[Code]....
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Mar 1, 2012
Im doing some work right now for a class and this is my first time ever using arrays and im having some trouble. I need to make a program that places the names in an array using a text file and displays all presidents for a requested range of numbers. every time i try and run the program it says "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." but im not really sure what that means, Heres the code
Public Class frmPresidents
Dim numLow As Integer, numHigh As Integer, Pres() As String
Private Sub btnPresidents_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
[Code]....
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Jun 30, 2012
I am trying to create a program that will refresh a *.log file within the program itself (in a RichTextBox), but while the actual application that is writing to that *.log file is open and is utilizing that file as well.
I have tried multiple things with StreamReader, but I can't seem to get anywhere...
Simply, I want to be able to read a *.log file in my Visual Basic 2010 program, but while the actual application that is writing to it is running itself.
How can I do this, as I keep getting the error that another process is utilizing the *.log/text document?
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