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 RepliesI'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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Which is the most performant way to read a large csv file in .NET? Using FileStream? or another class
View 4 RepliesI am writing a small tool that identifies digital scielence in non compressed PCM WAV files. Its purpose will be to scan files approximately 1 hour long, containing mostly scilence and spltting the periods of non scilence into files and discarding any digital silence which is encoded as null bytes.I am wondering what the most efficient way of scanning the files is. I am able to derive the number of bytes for each second from the file header (in my case 16000) so am considering reading into a buffer of this size then scanning byte for byte, if I identify a non-null byte I will start siphoning the data off to another file.My issue is with scanning large expanses of digital silence which could be many megabytes of data which would require examining each byte to determine wether or not its digital silence. Surely there is a more efficient way of skipping them as I am not interested in them.
View 7 RepliesI'm tryng to read an excel sheet that has more than 255 cell. I'm using the following code:
Dim MyConnection As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection
Dim MyDataSet As New System.Data.DataSet
Dim connectionString As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("PCOConnectionString2").ConnectionString
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this code throws me an error that indicates me that there are too many rows to read. I found, seaching through forums, that it can't be more that 255 cells on the sheet i'm reading.
How can i read this sheet that has over 500 cells?
I wrote a cleanup program to go through some directories and delete files based on if the creation date is older than say 6 months. It works fine with some of the directories I have that contain around a few thousand small files. However, there is one directory (that contains small backup files from another program) that is loaded with over 300,000 files and it locks up on me as soon as I read in the first file in that directory.I am convinced it is the directory has too many files in it to open it. The server that the directory is on is slow. It takes a half hour to open the directory while on the server itself. I know it will take forever to delete the amount of files I want to delete, but I don't understand why it gets stuck and hangs there with no error message.Here is where I get stuck. Listbox1 is the directory I'm attempting to access
For Each selectFile In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(ListBox1.Items.Item(Count), FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly, "*.*")
compFile = Path.GetFileName(selectFile)
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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 4 RepliesI've a problem reading text file using StreamReader. The file have between 500 000 and 1 000 000 lines.When I try to read it in a cycle, I get an error. That's why I've tried the StreamReader.ReadToEnd method. It worked fine. I've get the entire contents of the file in one string. So far everything is okay, but I've a small problem searching this huge string. I have to reformat the string to my desired format. I'll try to be more specific: The format of the input file is as follows:
50471100 8 2 6 5 0<LF><CR>
00000016 365442 12231<LF><CR>
00000026 112166 31133<LF><CR>
<end>
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The following code suppose to:
1. Read line-by-line a txt file with more than 500,000 lines, (each line 521 characters long)
2. extract an ID No from the line
3. query from a database for LCCIStatus
4. concatenate the value of LCCIStatus to the line
5. write the line to sample.txt
My problem is, this code works perfectly with the test file of 8000 lines but fail with the actual files which have over 500,000 lines. FYI, the test file contains data which I cut and paste from the actual file.
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I'm fairly new to VB.NET, and I'm working on a text editor with a tabbed interface. I deal with large text files. Should I have each tab / text document open up in a new thread or a process? I basically want the entire application to always run fast as the text editor is just one part of it. If I have several large text files open I don't want the rest of the application slowing down a bit.
View 2 RepliesI have two large text files (about 1.8 GB each encoded in UTF-8). And I want to check if the content of both files are 100% same. If there is single character difference then it is considered not same, i.e. both files are different. How do I do that? So my question is: How to check if 2 large text files content are 100% same?
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I am new to VB.Net, but I can tell you so far I love programming. That said, I'm building a tool basically to parse and display simple plain text log files. I'm hitting one stumbling block that really has me frustrated.
Other tools are able to load huge log files (500MB even) in a number of seconds. My tool, basically hangs loading a file that is maybe 5MB.
I'm using the MyString = StreamReader.ReadToEnd to read the contents into a string, and then RichTextBox1.Text = MyString to display the contents. That said, I really want to display the contents in a datagrid, but there has to be a better way of doing this?
How can I get my application to load larger files and display them faster? What am I doing wrong?
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 "
Basically 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?
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.
find 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 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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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 RepliesI 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.
View 5 RepliesI am witting an app that will generate batch files to do an unattended installation of a share point 2007 farm. I already have a batch file I use and it's pretty big. I copied and pasted the content into my application, and I'm using the System.IO.StreamWriter to write to the batch file from the winform. [code]As you can probably guess, I'm doing all of this in my mainform code window. There are maybe 3 or 4 batch files that will be generated based on the selections made on the form. For example, I'm generating a batch file to create the OU, Group and service accounts the farm will use in active directory, I'm creating a batch file for all of the variables that will be used for the additional batch files created, etc. How can I split this up? is there a way to create the batch files without having to actually copy, paste my existing batch file content into the mainform code window? I'm using file.writeline on each line of the pasted content by the way.
View 7 Replieshow to get a program to read a text file randomly.
I want to be able read text into a variable without running into the end of file.
I use VS 2010 under Windows 7, and I need to extract text that is currently stored in pdf and doc/docx files. Using .NET 4, how can I do this?
View 1 RepliesI have seen a few different ways of Reading/Writing Text files. What i am trying to achieve is a simple debug file in the most efficient way possible. Currently I have....
If System.IO.File.Exists(debugpath) = True Then
Dim Debugwriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(debugpath, True)
Debugwriter.WriteLine(debugwrite)
Debugwriter.Close()
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1. Do I have to close and reopen the file each time I want to write to it.
2. In vbscript I would simply open the the file at the start of the script and close at the end is the same possible here.
i have started programming a diary sort of program. i have a home form which takes you to other features. im not sure if there is an easier way to do this but the view is week by week with a new week on a new form. and on each form i have a separate text box for each day. using the code:
'In the form load event:
txtMonday.Text = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("DayMonth.txt")
'In the text-changed & form closing event:
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("DayMonth.txt",
Monday.Text, False)
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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