Replacing String In A Text File?
Aug 12, 2011
What I basically have is a small game which I want to count wins/loss/ties. I have no problem with the game aspect but need to know how I can replace a string in a csv file. IE: If Jim wins the game, his 5 needs to be turned to a 6. After googling quite a while I came across the replace() function, but it doesn't actually rewrite it back to the text file
Contents of users.txt:
Jim,1.jpg,5,1,0
Will,2.jpg,6,7,0
Tom,3.jpg,5,5,0
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The issue I have, is if I try to use any sort of IO function after this (WriteAllLines, streamwriter, etc) - I get a process is being used and can't touch the file (because its being read).Must I somehow create a new file with a copy of everything including the replaced string?
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Jul 14, 2009
I am using the .Replace function of a string. My string is a module I have added for a resource which looks like this: My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("This String Will Go Away/details.txt", "details.txt") And then in my application I have:
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Feb 9, 2010
I have a binary file. If I look at it with a hex editor, the first values are:208, 207, 17, 224, 161, 177, 26, 225, 0, 0, 0, ... etc.It has a length of 330240 bytes I have tried to open it and read it into a string so I can manipulate it and write it back. No matter what I use, I either don't get the correct number of bytes or the values in the string are incorrect. The most common error results in the first values being: 63, 63, 17, 63, 63, 26, 0, 0, 0 .... etc.It is interesting that it appears that any value > 63 becomes 63.
I get the 2nd values by a simple loop:
For lnx = 0 To 99
Debug.Write(Asc(line.Substring(lnx, 1)))
Next
I have tried a whole number of ways to read in the file, including filestream, My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText, File.io.readAllLines, etc.All either give me a string length of about 324000 (not sure why) or, if they do, don't have the correct values. Yes, I have tried various encoding options.
I need to find a string (sort of like: "D" & Chr(0) + "L" & Chr(0) + "S" & Chr(0)... ) so I can then replace that portion of the string with a new value, then write out the file.I use the ".indexOf" to find the data in the string.Why can't I load the file into a string? Or, do you know of an easy way to find some text (similar to above) in a file and then replace the next x number of bytes with a new value and close the file?
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Apr 14, 2010
I am using the following code, but cannot get this to work. I have got it to work if the replacement is just of one word. So if the word test is replaced by mouse and the only thing in the file is the word test, it works.
How can I replace like this:
CH_IPVOD_filename.mpg > replace the CH_IPVOD_ with nothing for the result of:
filename.mpg
?
I would like to replace every instance of ch_ipvod_ with nothing.
Public Class Form4
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim fso, inputFile, outputFile
Dim str As String
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May 1, 2012
I am in desperate need of code that will allow me to search through a text file (.txt) and change the word "POLAR" to a string with a particular value, for examples sake lets say the string = "SUN"
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Mar 11, 2010
I am trying to replace a string which is actually different from line to line in a text file. I want to end up with a filename but without the path. For example:
My text file contains:
C: est estingmorefilename.mpg
C: est estfiles1 estfile4.mpg
W: estinglocation estingmore estfiles9.mpg
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Jul 9, 2009
Sorry if this seems like I haven't searched, however I have. Maybe I'm not understanding something or maybe I just haven't found what I need. Anyway my question is this. How would I find multiple strings in a text file and replace them? So far I've been able to find out how to replace a single string with:
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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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Jun 4, 2011
I have some large csv files (1.5gb each) where I need to replace specific values. The method I'm currently using is terribly slow and I'm fairly certain that there should be a way to speed this up but I'm just not experienced enough to know what I should be doing. This is my first post and I tried searching through to find something relevant but didn't come across anything.
My other thought would be to break the file into chunks so that I can read the entire thing into memory, do all of the replacements there and then output to a consolidated file. I tried this but the way I did it actually ended up seeming slower than my current method.
Sub Main()
Dim fName As String = "2009.csv"
Dim wrtFile As String = "2009.1.csv"
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Jun 23, 2010
Having trouble getting this to work. I'm trying to replace the name of an old company inside a text file "Matrix Construction" with it's new name "Walsh Brothers" but it's not going to hot.
Imports System
Public Class ReplaceTest
Public Shared Sub Main()
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May 18, 2011
txt1 = help and txt2 = me! txt3 = not here, when i enter the other box i want the okay to drop sign to come up, after drop txt1=me! and txt2 = help.if i drag to txt3 display the can't drop sign.Iv'e tried everything all i can do is replace one way.also,i want the can't drop and can drop simbols to show.so far
Public
Class Form1
Private
Sub tbMouseDown(ByVal
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Mar 28, 2012
I've got an issue with a program I am writing. The specific issue is replacing characters in a parent string by finding, and matching, specific characters within it that are parsed from an external xml file. It's for a chat-like client.Here's the 2 classes I am using to pull the emote strings, titles, and id from external XML:
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports System.Xml.Serialization
Public Class emote
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Mar 14, 2011
I'm building a program in which it asks for your name and age and determines a ticket price based upon these details. I want it to show the person's name, then their age, (jump down a line) then their ticket price, and then it jumps down a line to show the next person's name, age and ticket price. Issue is, when it's meant to jump down to show the next person, it just completely deletes the last person's details.I'm using this line of code:
TxtFareShow.Text = (Name & Age & vbCrLf & Price) & vbCrLf
How do I fix this?
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Apr 17, 2012
This should be fairly simple but i'm having one of those days, can any1 advise me as to how to replace the first and third occurance of a character within a string, i have looked at replace but that cannot work as the string could be of different lengths, all i want to do is replace the first and third occurance?
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Apr 2, 2010
Okay, so I know now how to replace vowels in a string. Is there any way I can use the Select Case similar to the code below to replace all numbers into letter Z.
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Apr 6, 2011
I am trimming some strings but I am unable to do anything about the strings containing plus signs. For example if I have this string with a telephone number
Dim str As String = "+46765124246"
And try
str.replace("+46", "0")
Nothing changes in the string.
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Apr 2, 2010
im having problems using the replace method.newpassword = oldpassword.Replace("[aeiou]", "X")
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Feb 11, 2009
I am trying to replace a ' with " but this does not work:
Dim strFilter As String = " 'TESt'"
Dim x As String = strFilter.Replace(Chr(145), Chr(147))
Dim u As String = strFilter.Replace(Chr(146), Chr(148))
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Sep 7, 2011
I have an issue, i have a program im working on, that i have been working on and im trying to replace a whole block of text. I do it in one spot in my code and it works great, but in a different part of my code, even though im using the same exact logic and pretty much the same code (other than slight variable changes) it will not work, and i have no idea why, it just like ignores it. I took some screenshots:If you look hard the only difference is the "S12000" (top pic) is changed to "S6000" (bottom pic). The pic shows this part about 3/4 of the way thru it.
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Jul 25, 2010
How do I turn
1
2
3
1
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into
1
2
3
?
I basically want to remove multiple strings within a string.
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Oct 29, 2010
for example i have two strings 0000 and 0001 then
0000
0001
----
result= 000- here difference is indicated by - sign
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Aug 8, 2010
I am working on a program and for one of my features, I need to replace all spaces in a program with - (dashes.) Is there a way in which I can do this?
Example:
Start String = "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain."
End String = "The-rain-in-Spain-falls-mainly-in-the-plain."
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Jul 12, 2010
i have an array that contains a-z.When i enter text like "ab" into a textbox and click the button, it will search the array and replace the text accordingly to the index number of the array and rewrite into the textbox with the index number.
But what i got from the code below is "ab0 1".May i know how to do so that the textbox will only display the index number and not with the letters. Also, how do i search the array from index 12 onwards to the end of the array.
For Each b As String In TextBox2.Text
If abc.Contains(b) Then
Dim ab As Integer = Array.IndexOf(abc, b)
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Mar 26, 2012
Below is the section I'm having trouble with at the moment:
Friend Sub glbHooks_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As KeyPressEventArgs) Handles glbHooks.KeyPress
newStr = newStr & LCase(e.KeyChar)
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Neither of these worked, though the 2nd one would clean up my code a bit. Unfortunately I'm getting an "Expression expected" error on that "newStr = If..." line. I know there's supposed to be a "Then" somewhere along it but I don't know where it's supposed to be and the poster hasn't gotten back to me on that yet.
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Jan 23, 2010
i want to replace certain words each time they are detected in order to create a correct response. i have managed to replace the word"i" with "you" and "you" with "me" separatley but when both words are detected in the string it dont work....
ElseIf txtEnter.Text.Contains(" i ") Then
Dim ii As String
ii = Replace(txtEnter.Text, " i ", " you ")
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Mar 3, 2011
Is there a simple way to remove reserved characters from a string without looping through it and testing each character? I want to remove <>:/?|? from strings that are used for folder and file names.
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Dec 20, 2010
I am wondering how to replace two variables in a query from selections that the user makes. One variable is chosen by a combo box called cboYEARMONTH and the other is selected from a list view called employeeListView. I know that I can use .replace to insert the YearMonth into the string but, how do I also replace the EmployeeID in the query string?
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Jun 1, 2012
I'm trying to make a function in VB.net that will loop through an algorithm. I've split the algorithm into an array using the Split command, so I have an array with the values. I then try to loop through them and replace a # with "Number" where necessary, however VB.net throws an error. Algorithms are in the format A B C D E F 1 2 3 #
Function generate(ByVal alg As String)
Dim algSplit As String() = alg.Split(" ")
For Each digit In algSplit
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Apr 27, 2011
I'm using the Oracle command dbms_output.get_line to retrieve output from a stored procedure. Once my code runs the command, I'm retrieving the results through a buffer string, 32000 bytes long.Inevitably, this string will have Oracle line breaks (chr(10) and chr(13)) in it that I'd like to replace with Environment.NewLine so I can display the output in a standard Winforms textbox.Here is the code I've been using - I don't recall exactly where I got the Oracle command right now, but if I find it, I'll add the link.
Dim cmdGetOutput As New OracleCommand("declare " & _
" l_line varchar2(255); " & _
" l_done number; " & _
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Feb 16, 2009
I am practicing for my next semester, trying to get ahead in VB.Net, so I got a library book and I am attempting the book exercises, in this exercise I need to replace the currency format to the To.String format, but everythiing I try doesnt work, and everything I read online just confuses me more, can anyone shed light on why my code is not outputting my discount amount and my total amount?
Dim subtotal As Decimal = Decimal.Parse(txtSubtotal.Text)
Dim discountPercent As Decimal = 0.25D
Dim discountAmount As Decimal = Math.Round(subtotal * discountPercent, 2)
Dim invoiceTotal As Decimal = Math.Round(subtotal - discountAmount, 2)
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