Reading A Text From A Binary File, Changing And Saving?
May 4, 2009
I'm new to VB and trying to figure out how I can replace a bit of descriptive text in a binary file. I presume its binary as I cant open it with anything but a hex editor. I've changed the text (file description) in the hex editor and saved it fine but I'm unsure how I go about saving just the section of information I need. I can work out the saving bit later.In the attached file you'll see the highlighted bit I want to edit. I need to replace the whole line or the file corrupt but I can fill it up with null characters and the numbers are just
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Sep 29, 2010
I am doing some exercises on encrypting data. One of them are binary files. I am currently using triple DES to encrypt and decrypt the files both in VB.NET and C#... Now the thing is, once it is decrypted in VB.NET and saved, I can execute it again... But for some reason, my C# file is bigger! 20,4K where VB.NET one is 19,0. The C# file also is rendered unexecutable...Upon a closer look. The files appear almost exactly the same, but C# seems to add in a few extra bytes here and there in (seemingly) random places... I am currently using:
File.ReadAllText(String filepath, Encoding encoding); with UTF-8 encoding.
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Aug 14, 2008
I require some help in saving and reading files in Line by Line format, How would I save to a specific line in the text file, or read a specific line?
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Aug 18, 2011
I am trying to create a console application that allows me to read the contents of a text file and saving the data by specific name in a set of files. For example, the text file I am going to read is a tab delimited file. Some content of the file includes full name, school, location, and whatnot. I want to save the content by school name in a set of files that have the school names. In this case, everyone that attends "Central" will be saved in a file named Central.txt.Everyone that attends "Central Park" will be saved in a file named Central Park.txt.These are the sub procedures I came up with so far:
Readfile()
'Use StreamReader
WriteFile()
And I think I am on the right track of reading the text file:
Dim objStreamReader As StreamReader
Dim strLine As String
'Pass the file path and the file name to the StreamReader constructor.
[code]....
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May 4, 2009
I need to write data to a file, preferably in binary format, but I am unaccustomed with the concept. Where's the easiest place to get the basics? I could come here with a specific need, but I'm at the point right now where I am more willing to work within the confines of keeping it simple.
Here's what I know:
1. how to open a new file
2. how to specify the record length
3. how to close the file
Some specific questions:
Does the record length have to be constant throughout the file?
Can I read the nth record without reading the whole file?
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Oct 13, 2009
how to save an array of structure to binary file. I tried the binary formatter but it still aint workin. My code attached
Dim directoryList As String()
Dim fileData() As myData
Dim myFile As myProps
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Dec 20, 2010
few weeks ago i heard my teacher say that it is possible to view any file as a binary array (1s and 0s). if this is possible to do in visual basic please let me know how. Also how would i go about writing an array of binary to a file? For example 01100001 in a .txt file would produce "a"
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Jul 30, 2010
I am fairly new to vb.net but was programming a long ime with vb6 I have a binary file that is a mixture of numbers (integers and doubles) and strings, such as "Programming with VB". I read the numbers using the BinaryStreamReader.ReadInt32 and BinaryStreamReader.ReadDouble, which are no problem
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Dec 1, 2010
Here is my code for reading a Binary file:
Dim fs As New FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open)
Dim str As String = ""
For d As Integer = 0 To l - 1
Dim byt As String = Hex(fs.ReadByte()).ToUpper
fs.Position = d
str+= byt
Next
str becomes:
20202CB962AC5975B964B7152D234B
But when I open the file in a HEX editor, it's:
202CB962AC59075B964B07152D234B70
Why are the 2 different?
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Jan 16, 2010
I have a device with upon serial communication , it send the data as HEX values , (eg, C020042ABD0F91A103E400F929EBC) . I use the following code to get data from the serial port.
Dim fStream As New FileStream(sFileName, FileMode.CreateNew) ' creates new file
Dim bw As New BinaryWriter(fStream)
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1500)
ComTd.Read(data, 1, bCount)
[code]....
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Aug 26, 2009
I'm attempting to download a file with a custom "message" i.e. with specific bytes sent to a server. I am using the lightweight utorrent setup file which could be easily downloaded with the statement in the first code tag or even using a WebRequest, WebResponse, StreamReader etc. But for some reasons I need to be able to code the "message". I would explain why but that would just be a diversion...Anyway the problem is that the packet gets saved in its native form but I need to be able to save the packet to the actual file without the header and etc. The sample code is in the second code tag.
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile()
Dim server As String = "download.utorrent.com"
Dim mySocket As Socket
[Code].....
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Jan 25, 2009
Reading binary file from hard drive in VB and writing to database.
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Feb 19, 2010
I am attempting to read a series of double prcision float values (x,y,z coordinates) from a binary file using the binary reader. Everything works fine except that when I read the number back it is different then the number that was written there (original file is generated by mining application).
written number : 78897.6476586
file contents hex : 40 F3 43 1A 5C CF 43 A4 this converts back to the same number as written using a IEE 754 conversion program. VB returned value : -5.45100266729248E-134 using .readDouble()
I have tried to step thru the file in one byte steps to make sure that I have the proper start position but that did not help any.
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Dec 18, 2011
I must search a binary string for a pattern. This worked fine in VB6 using Get to read a file into a string and using InStr to search for the pattern. The conversion from VB6 to VB.NET changed Get to FileGet and warned of new behavior, but I don't see anything in the FileGet documentation about not being able to read 0 value bytes.
I don't mind at all changing to a new method, but ultimately I must get the data into a string rather than an array.
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Feb 23, 2012
I do apologies for all the question say example I had text file with this string it
ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:29:38:43:ff:30; ifconfig eth0 up and i wanted to put textbox where the user can change mac address and resave the file in same format how would i do it.
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Feb 12, 2012
Currently I am saving data from my applications by saving a text file via a stream reader as a string. I have come to a problem. In my current application, I have an array of the following structure:
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Jun 10, 2011
I am currently working on a vb project. What I am trying to do is reading a XML file and saving all the data in to the Access DB. Once this is done, I read the data from the access Db and display it in the required fields in VB form. Issue is, when i store the value in the access, a weird character is assigned before and after the data. The character is a square box with question mark in it. Also the same character displays on the VB form as well
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Jan 17, 2011
Lets say you have a few text boxes, I know how to save the information in each box to a text file, but that creates a file for each box. Is it possible to save the contence of lots of different text boxes to 1 text file, and then when loading them it would load it all back to the right places?
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Sep 7, 2008
I have a binary converter I am attempting to build and want to read and convert the InputTextBox(alphabetical characters) letter by letter however all I have so far is one letter at a time
Image here is the code I have so far:
Code:
Public Class ConverterForm
Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OpenToolStripMenuItem.Click
[Code]....
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Mar 13, 2010
how I could check if a certain file is in text or binary format?I'm using VB.Net 2008 Express.
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Jun 4, 2011
How do I change bytes [text stored in those bytes] in a binary file?
I have a little function that read bytes 335-343 [For Keyer] and bytes 344-352 [for verifier] and displays it. These bytes store who the keyerID and VerifierID of a data entry file are. From time to time the Verifier Resumes the file [to insert new records], and his/her name gets stored in the KeyerID bytes. So if the original keyer had lots of errors, the new verifier now becomes the owner of this file and the errors are attributed to him/her [not fair]. He/She gets penalized when there are lots of errors.
My question to you is, how do I change the content of those bytes and save it to the file, without damaging any part of the file? I want to save 'H345' in those bytes, [H345 is an example of a Keyer/Verifier ID]
note - as of now I am using 010 Editor [binary editor]to manually change those bytes. When I use this editor, I can see the text portions for those bytes.[code]...
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Jul 26, 2009
I need to write an hexadecimal value to a text file but as a binary, how do i do that
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Apr 20, 2011
i am currently doing a project for my course. My project is creating a system for a mechanical workshop, this includes customer information, car information, expenditure ect. I am not allowed to use access to store the information as this will decrease my overall mark on difficulty hence i am going to use files to store the information. I am using VB 2005. I have tried with binary files, this was good at first as it stored data in a record but then when i tried to create a algorithm to search the data it failed.
1) Should i change my file from binary to text or another type?
2) Anyone have any ideas to search within a binary file? If you do can i get some code please.
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Jun 3, 2011
I ran across my first unicode data, and I am not sure what to do with it. I read the unicode text from a binary file using the ReadBytes method, because ReadChars threw an exception when it tried it. Well, long story short, I have found a way to work with the data, I can convert it using a small Function I wrote, which goes something like this: [Code] And this works wonderfully. It just throws away anything not in the ASCII range, including the BOM at the start of the unicode data.
But I would guess that this method is not very universal and probably not the best way. Are there any VB functions available to do this sort of thing? I was able to find something called Text.Encoding, but there didn't seem to be a reverse of that not that I found anyhow. Any ideas?
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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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May 27, 2009
how to permanently save to text files then re-open all of the information again using SFD and OFD. Now my teacher has come back at me and said that i need to be able to save the information from multiple text boxes and have the text in certain labels to also be saved into the one text file (the labels need to be done because it is a database and these labels are like the fields and the right text box needs to match the right label)
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Mar 31, 2011
I have a textbox that is filled with some carefully formatted text. I need to save the text in that textbox as a text file with the extension of '.scr' eg: File1.scr instead of File1.txt
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Mar 10, 2010
Is there anyway to take a static stream reader, and switch it to another text file based on the user changing the file?
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Sep 10, 2009
I have a string with Binarydata that is 64bit. I want to store this data into SQlServer database and the column is varbinary(Max).When I pass the string I am getting an error saying string cannot be converted into varbinary.
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Aug 24, 2009
I'm trying to save binary data ( convert from image) to byte array in mifare card with acr 120 reader.
image : 687 byte
mifare : 1 k
My problem its can't save but I am trying to save char data its work.
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