This is an veriation on a previos thread of mine (les complicated I think)
All .png Image Files in a Folder is named as 6 diget numbers.
Forinstance a "2" wil apear as "000002"
"22" as "000022"
"42" as 000042"
Can this files be searched by numeric value insted of a string?
So if I then searced fot the value of 2 I will get file named 000002 and not file named 000042 or 000022
Is there a numeric text box, not an up-down box, a SIMPLE numeric box into which the user can place a number, 5 boxes actually, then on command have the five boxes added and the sum displayed?
View 8 RepliesI need to open an excel file from vb.net and then search it for specific data. I then need to take those data and insert them into text boxes on a form that i have created. This is all controlled by a button click. I already have some code that will open a file dialog box and let me navigate to the correct file, but I am having trouble with the search portion. I have tried the Find function but I am not sure of the proper syntax. I am using Visual Studio 2008 and Excel 2003.
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Im trying to get a list of all the text files present (there file paths) in a certain folder (lets say C:\Users\podypodpod\Desktop\textfiles) and then add them to the list box (lb_Entrys)
ive manage to find this code to get all text files from the desktop , but i cant manage to edit it so i can give an actual filepath for it to search
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I am trying to read data with a test routine from a fairly simple 3rd party Excel file. The file has three sheets and was created by Open Office 3.x as an 'Excel 97/2000/XP .xls' file. The later, still to be programmed, application must later run on machines with Windows XP Professional using the 2.0 .net framework and no Office package installed. The content of the file does not need to be modified by the later application. For some reason, numeric values are not read correctly. They "convert" to DBNull. I've searched around a bit but not found a 'simple' solution for solving this problem. Adding 'IMEX=1' or 'HDR=Yes;IMEX=1' to the connection string results in an error 'Installierbares ISAM nicht gefunden' (installable ISAM not found).
Based on various examples I've found, I've written the following test code:
Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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I only want to place the numerical data in an array. At the moment I have the following code to do this. [Code]. This code places the numbers in the data array when there is not any text in the file, i.e. when there are no headers. I would like to place the headers in another array, and then have the numbers in the array as in the code above.
View 5 RepliesI'm working on a program for a side business I run with a friend, who is a non-programmer.I've done a program before, using IO.StreamReader and IO.StreamWriter to read and write lines to a text file.
But now, I'm working on reading text data (it's output from an old legacy program) that reads a first and last name, and the customer number (6 digits) from one file.
Then, it uses the data (customer number) read the first time to cross reference the zip code and status from a second file, and display it.
The Data in the Text Files are as follows:[code...]
How would I begin parsing for the first and last name, and the customer number to assign to different variables?In the line that references names.txt I meant to put customers.txt.
That's a snippet of code I took from a previous program, so I know how to read the data, just don't know how to extract it.
I'm trying to do some simple XML manipulation by searching one XML file for a set of nodes and inserting them into another XML file at a specific location.I'm able to succesfully create a node list from one of the files using the following xpath statement [code].....
I'm struggling to see how I can easily select any node I want within the first XML file but the second file refuses to play ball! I've attached the second XML file should anyone wish to check that I've interpreted the structure correctly.
I'm having problem reading Binary file that has two types of data in it; Strings and numeric data in decimal format.[code]...
1. The loop doesn't stop, and it gives me "Unable to read beyond the end of the stream" Error..
2. The output isn't accurate, apart from a few random correct strings and numbers..
3. After the loop is fixed, how can i save the data to an Array or write it to a text file?. Can the be saved line by line so that the output file has the same number of lines?
4. As you can see in the code, I've tried writing data in a file, but it doesn't work.. Messagebox does show some data (even though it's not accurate), the file however doesn't contain any data..
I read a csv file into my .net program using ado.net and display it in a datagridview.In the file I have two rows. The first column is a component id, and it is supposed to be numeric. But the user can edit the csv file before having my program load it, and accidentally put text there. That is something I want to edit when he presses a button to add the data to the database. So let's say he puts a value of A in the first record and a value of 1 in the second record. Or vice versa. What is displayed in the dgv is a blank in the first record and a 1 in the second, or 1 in first and blank in second. If both csv records are A, then what is displayed in the dgv is an A in both the first and second records. I don't understand what is happening. The fact that there sometimes is a numeric in the column makes it think it is a numeric field and therefore only display numerics and blank otherwise, and the fact that there's always text in the column makes the code know it is a text field?
View 2 RepliesI have a textbox which has a numeric value that changes - would it be possible to check if that value matches two numeric values in a text file? and if the value matches then to display some text in a label? The textfile only has fields displayed like so
Horizontal 55
Vertical 16
So I would only need to check if the numeric field in textbox matches the two numbers in the second column. In the past I have use System.IO.File to create/delete/append to files but I havent come across anything like contains.
i would want to make an application that searches a file in a network.
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View 9 RepliesI'm trying to make a script that searches for multiple .TXT files in a directory, and then searches the text of each file for a matching string(ie. "turtles"). It will search each file for the word "turtles". I've been on google trying to figure this out for a while, I'm guessing StreamReader is the way to go?
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim l_Dir As IO.DirectoryInfo
l_Dir = New IO.DirectoryInfo(MyPath)
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I How can I search a specific file using vb.net and store the path in a variable? For example if I need to know where I have *.abc files in my entire computer, how can this be done?
View 5 RepliesI have been searching all over the forum and internet, but seems to have a hard time finding some help on how to search for a file at unknown location.
The reason is that, I made an easy form that helps some friends of mine find around a website more quickly.
Now this is what I want.
They have a game installed on the computer, and I want my program to search for this file and execute it afterwords.
F.eks
I have 4 HD's and WOW is on the 3rd. I want this software to search all the HD's to search for Wow.exe.
I have some code that does what I need it to do, But I am going to have make changes to accommodate the user request. Basically the program searches a folder for a paint code, ex. 351X035. When the code is found it displays a link so the user can click it to open up a PDF. The way I have it setup now is that they have to know the exact paint code for it to pull the link to the file. I need to search to find the file(s) with less than the exact code.
Imports System
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Windows.Forms
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in vba i would use vlookup on an excel table. How do you search a text file in vb.net that is formatted like this
ES,2
C,3
EC,4
I want to search for the two letter string and retrieve the integer that follows the comma
I need some guidance on the best way to proceed with searching a file content.I have a large file (see attachment) that is in text form, some of these files could be upto 50 times as big, therefore creating a huge file.These files contain information that is produced from another application and therefore I am unable to change the format of the file.This file contains information that I want the user to be able to be able to enter search criteria in a form that then searches this file and returns information. The individual information is split into sections of data and this is defined by the section start label lbl{ and the end label }} Therefore the below information highlighted in bold is an individual section
lbl{-32768 21 12 0 text {Equip no: P-102BDescr 1: RECYCLE PUMP-BDescr 2:}}lbl{-32768 21 28 0 text {Equip no: D-100Descr 1: COLUMN RECIEVERDescr 2:}}Now comes the hard bit, in the bold section above you will notice that there is some text Equip no: P-102B I want the user to be able to enter in a form *102B* and for it to return -32768 21 12 0 which is after lbl{ and before text.Now obviously I could loop through the whole file to do this, however I am very concerned about RAM usage and also the time it will take to do this. Obviously the user could use this search option over and over again and therefore we would be searching the same file over and over again. One of my thoughts was to read the file once and output the content in an Access Database table and then use SQL to get the information? However would the user require Access on there machine to be able to do create the database or could I just ship a blank Access database with my app and then copy this and populate? Also I am not sure if Access is the best database, obviously I don't want people to have to use Oracle of SQL as this would require server configuration etc. but are there better free databases out there?
I am new with VB 2008. I want to use txt file to store some parameters which is used entire of the application. I want following tasks;
1. creat the text file and give particular path where file must be saved.
2. Write values like TEXT{Tab} Value.
close the file
3.save the file.
4. open the file and read the only values and set into particular textbox on the form.
5. close the file.
Some times i need to search the particular value or TEXT. How i fullfill this task.
I need to open a file everyday which is located in the V drive However the file renames itself daily such as DAA123 DAA128 So I cannot do a Data Refresh What I need to do is create a Macro to search the text document and if it prices PRICES365 and as at todays date Then it opens?
View 9 RepliesI have to write a program that allows a user to input DVD info such as DVD Name, Year produced, Running Time, and Rating. The user then clicks a menu item "New" to save that info to a file. Then the next time the user inputs new DVD info it has to append the new data to the same file. (I got this far and everything is working writing and appending data)Next the year has to be able to search by DVD Video name and it has to print the info in the text boxes on the form, if not found then a messagebox should say not found. When I use the sub procedure that I have created to search the record it always comes back as record not found although the record in in the file.
Option Strict On
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
'Class level variables
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I've got two text files. The first has got a list of certain keywords. Each one if these keywords are fed into a combobox. Now, when I choose one of the items from this combobox, I want to search the other textfile for the same keyword and read from that point to the next keyword. And then feed each line into a listbox. Perhaps I should use an INI-file for this purpose, doesn't really matter for me.
The textfiles have this structure;
Textfile1:
London
Oslo
New York
Hamburg
Amsterdam
The second textfile has this structure;
Textfile2:
'London'
Apples
Oranges
Pears
'Oslo'
Pasta
Salami
Monkeyballs
'New York'
Dada
Duda
Dadadish
Is this possible? The reason I want to do it this way is to create a fully dynamic system. One which relies fully on whatever information is stored in these textfiles. I'm gonna build pretty complex strings from these results later on. So far, I've got this to read the first file and add each line to the combobox:
Dim oReadMenuFunction as System.IO.StreamReader
oReadMenuFunction = IO.File.OpenText("textfile1.txt")
Do While oReadMenuFunction.Peek <> -1
Dim LineIn as String = oReadMenuFunction.ReadLine()
Combobox.Items.Add(LineIn)
Loop
I'm trying to get help or idea how to get certain things out of text file. I don't know even if it's possible, but I hope so.[code]I need to get that number what is after /kick "nr". Also I need to get last /kick "nr".
View 8 RepliesGiven a filename, how do I efficiently search for that file on disk?
(Visual Studio 2005, i.e. .NET 2.0)
I'm trying to get a program running that loads a sequential file such as "records.txt" into a two dimmensional array and searches the "records.txt" for the data that the user enters into a text box. Not quite sure how to go about doing this.
View 1 RepliesI need some guidance on the best way to proceed with searching a file content. I have a large file (see attachment) that is in text form, some of these files could be upto 50 times as big, therefore creating a huge file. These files contain information that is produced from another application and therefore I am unable to change the format of the file.
This file contains information that I want the user to be able to be able to enter search criteria in a form that then searches this file and returns information. The individual information is split into sections of data and this is defined by the section start label lbl{ and the end label }} Therefore the below information highlighted in bold is an individual section
CODE:
Now comes the hard bit, in the bold section above you will notice that there is some text Equip no: P-102B I want the user to be able to enter in a form *102B* and for it to return -32768 21 12 0 which is after lbl{ and before text
Now obviously I could loop through the whole file to do this, however I am very concerned about RAM usage and also the time it will take to do this. Obviously the user could use this search option over and over again and therefore we would be searching the same file over and over again.
What I am wondering is if anyone has an idea on how best to do this?
One of my thoughts was to read the file once and output the content in an Access Database table and then use SQL to get the information? However would the user require Access on there machine to be able to do create the database or could I just ship a blank Access database with my app and then copy this and populate? Also I am not sure if Access is the best database, obviously I don't want people to have to use Oracle of SQL as this would require server configuration etc. but are there better free databases out there?
I've been writing a socket application in which the client sends a user/pass combination which the server compares to a local text file. I'm only hacvin a problem with a small section where I have a do loop which does this comparison:(the string 'fromclient' has been defined earlier, as the information was received from the client)
fromfile As String
Dim sr As StreamReader = File.OpenText("C:PASS.txt")
Do While sr.Peek <> -1
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There's an INI file that I want to access and read information from. This is the complete content of the INI file in question: http:[url]....I believe it is because of the [ ] tags in that INI file. Because they work if I remove the tags.My program has a bunch of comboboxes, trackbars and checkboxes. These items will be filled by the information taken from the INI file.For instance, ini file has these lines;
bCrosshairEnabled=1
bDoDepthOfField=0
bFXAAEnabled=1[code]...
Example: I want the checkbox8 in my form to get checked if bFXAAEnabled has a value of 1 or unchecked if it is 0.
I have been taking a class in Visual Basic and am currently working on my final project which I am having some trouble with. I am using Visual Basic 2010 express The project is to create an application that will store data in a text file, specifically, Last Name, First Name, Customer Number, Address, City, State, ZIP Code, Telephone Number, Account Balance, and Date of Last Payment. I have gotten everything done except the ability to search the file by Last Name or Customer Number. I have no idea how to go about this? I was thinking of ways to use indexof or Readline to be able to search the data, but I'm not familiar enough with the code to come up with a good solution. Below is a picture of how my form looks..As you can see, I'm currently using 2 separate forms to get the data from the user. Here is the code for Form1 which is the "Customer Accounts" form in the picture.
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Public customerFile As StreamWriter ' Object variable
Public customerFile1 As StreamReader ' Object variable
Public strFile As String
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There isn't enough room to post the code for my secondary form, but you get the idea. I would like to be able to enter a search term in the textbox on the bottom right of the form, and either search the data as its displayed in the listbox, or search the actual file? I was thinking that the results would be displayed in a messagebox?