VB 2010 - Text Reader Encoding And TextFieldParser
Apr 1, 2011
I have a VB2010 project where I need to read a tab delimited 50MB file using Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser. This technique works fine until the reader encounters a Unicode character upon which it inserts the little square thingy. The obvious choice is to change the encoding of the reader to Unicode from the default. This would probably work fine but for most files but this one is fairly large and I get the error TextFieldParser is unable to complete the read operation because maximum buffer size has been exceeded. By the way this file can be read completely without the Unicode option. Making the file smaller or breaking it up really isn't an option. Is is possible to increase the buffer size or is there another way to read this data that places the data in fields like the textparser and allows unicode characters?
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Oct 28, 2009
I am sending a DDE message to a client using System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(item) . However, before the message is actually sent, I would like to get the message coded where if the item="Ask" then item=Ask (string variable) and so on. The code is:
Protected Overrides Function OnRequest(ByVal conversation As DdeConversation, ByVal item As String, ByVal format As Integer) As RequestResult
' Return data to the client only if the format is CF_TEXT
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Oct 18, 2011
The end of the text document my application is reading is denoted by a character that I cant identify, copy or paste. I attached an image of it so you can see. I have no control over the formatting of the document so I can't change the character. During debugging it shows the same character as shown in the picture, but if I hit the little tack next to where the variable shows then it changes to "f". However, if I try to see if the variable equals "f" it returns false.
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Aug 25, 2010
I am learning to use TextFieldParser to read a fixed width text data file. It works great. I copied code below. Question: How to stop at the end of each line because I need to add some code?
Using tf As New TextFieldParser(fileName)
tf.TextFieldType = FileIO.FieldType.FixedWidth
tf.SetFieldWidths(60, 30, 20) //three columns
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Sep 15, 2010
I am trying to use Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser for parsing any format of tab delimited text file that user may have and show the data in web page in tabular fashion.I have sample tsv file with text qualifiers such as quotes saved in different encoding styles for different platforms such as pc, unix, mac saved using textpad. and I am trying to parse these using TextFieldParser. It works for all PC files but fails for mac.
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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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May 3, 2011
I have done very little with encoding of Text. Truthfully, I don't really even know what it means exactly.
For example, if I have something like:
CODE:
Is that 'encoded' in memory in a particular format? Does that format depend on what language I'm using?
If I were in another country, like China, for example, and I had a string of Chinese (mandarin? My apologies if I'm using the wrong words here) would the following code (that I've used fine on English strings) still work the same?
CODE:
Or would it lose all meaning when you convert that .Net string to a UTF8Encoding when that conversion isn't valid?
Finally, I've worked with .Net for a few years now and I've never seen, heard, or had to do anything with Encoding. Am I the exception, or is it not a common thing to do?
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Aug 21, 2009
I am writing an application that must generate a plain Text file with fixed sized columns.my current code is:
Dim MyFilePath As String = Path & FILE_PREFIX & FileNr & ".TXT"
IO.File.Delete(MyFilePath)
Dim FileStr As New IO.StreamWriter(MyFilePath, False, <ENCODER HERE>)
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Mar 8, 2010
I have an ASP.Net app that allows a user to write text into a Telerik RadEditor control and then send an email.For some reason I'm sometimes getting strange characters showing up in the email that is generated.se if I use the later, the text would show up just fine. If I pull up the saved record within the ASP.Net apps interface it looks just fine. It also appears just fine when I view the text within the recorded of the MS SQL table it was stored in. Continued--->I have tried to add it to the constructor of my email class with/without mybase but that had no effect.
Public Sub New(ByVal EmailDate As DateTime, ByVal LogoPath As String)
MyBase.New()
MyBase.BodyEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1")
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Apr 23, 2012
I am creating xml files that contain chinese posts and it seemed to be working but I started getting an error:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 4165 at column 25: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0x0B 0xC3 0xA5 0xC2 Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
When trying to open some of the resulting files.The line it references contains chinese characters and this occurs only in some situations and my guess is that the text is sometimes containing some characters that throw it off. How can I ensure that the text for that field will always be properly encoded? I don't even understand why the issue yet.
Public Shared xwriter As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter(xmlfile, Encoding.UTF8)
I make sure the xmltextwriter is properly declared.
EDIT:
The issue is that I use vb.net and apparantly it encodes everything in utf-16 so I assume this is fine. The problem is that the text I am receiving is probably double encoded or incorrectly encoded and I need to clean it before using it; so that my xml is valid.
EDIT:
so if I need to fix my data, my question is how can I detect what encoding is used for a specific text and how do I convert into utf8 format that can be viewed in an xml file and make the file valid.
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Nov 1, 2010
I can't use System.Text.Encoding, I get this error when trying to use it:
A first chance exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in WindowsApplication3.exe
A first chance exception of type 'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
this is the
Private _TextEncoding As System.Text.Encoding
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim _DownloadedBytes() As Byte = _TextEncoding.GetBytes("teststste")
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and then it exit function.
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Mar 7, 2011
I used WriteAllText to set the encoding for a text file. When I wrote it, everything worked out fine. However, strange characters or symbols appeared in some ofm y fields without my having typed it. why is this so? The encoding I'm using is UTF8. I used the WriteAllText to write the fields to file but did not use the ReadAllText to bring the data back into the fields or program.
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Dec 12, 2010
Is there an easy way to encode and decode xml file so that it can only be read with a program that knows how to decrypt it.Basically i want to encode xml file and have a program that reads it.here is the code that is reading it now. thnx to .paul i learned how to read xml the link to that topic is How to read and sort xml
Quote:
vb
Public Class Form1
Dim ds As New DataSet
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Jun 12, 2010
I recently worked on a small-scale EPP Client, which is a communications protocol over TCP/IP using XML packets to exchange commands and responses. The server I'm working with specifically is employing SSL so the code contains references to an SSLStream certificates and passphrases - please don't ask me to post more code than I provide here.We're building the XML EPP Commands in raw System.Strings, then using System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes on the string to populate a Byte Array, then writing the Byte Array into the SSLStream. The server would communicate, negotiate certificates, and
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May 20, 2010
Is there any way i could take a music file, like a radio playlist (pls) and encode it into my application?
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Apr 23, 2012
I am creating xml files that contain chinese posts and it seemed to be working but I started getting an error:This page contains the following errors:error on line 4165 at column 25: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !Bytes: 0x0B 0xC3 0xA5 0xC2
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.When trying to open some of the resulting files.The line it references contains chinese characters and the error occurs only for some posts and my guess is that the text has some encoding issues.
Public Shared xwriter As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter(xmlfile, Encoding.UTF8)
I make sure the xmltextwriter is properly declared and set the encoding and from what I understand is that vb.net encodes everything in utf-16. My code works well with streams I get from another source that sometime contains chinese characters and it never invalidates the xml. I tried cleaning the text using the following functions and the xml is now valid but when viewing the xml in the browser the characters are not chinese but junk.
Private Shared Sub replaceIllegalXMLChars(ByRef tempstring As String)
'remove any hexdecimal characters like and �
tempstring = Regex.Replace(tempstring, "&#x([0-9A-F]{1}[0-9A-F]{0,1});", " ")
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so if I need to fix my data, my question is how can I detect what encoding is used for a specific text and how do I convert it into utf8 format that can be viewed in an xml file and make the file valid.
EDIT: I messed around with converting from one type to another, first ASCII to UTF8, then Unicode to UTF-8. did not work. The only time the xml is valid is when characters display as such:
油价，老百姓心�*永远的痛！ � 民生、控物价一边说，油价一边涨，国家真得是为了老百姓的民生� �？
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Feb 8, 2011
I'm can drag text-files to my app, but how do I get the encoding-type after reading?
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Apr 30, 2012
I have a problem with combobox. I set the DrawMode into OwnerDrawVariable so I can draw items seperately with styles, but the characters of the items are now displaying blocks. The block characters are none ASCII. It used to display well but not now and I don't know what caused it to happen. I didn't change my system locale. At the same time, other combobox that have Normal DrawMode displays nicely fine.
My custom drawing code:
e.Graphics.DrawString(combo.Items(e.Index), combo.Font, b2, rect.X, rect.Y)
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May 18, 2011
I want to launch a application called Foxit Reader pdf Reader .I know System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path) can do it but . Requirements are Foxit Reader should be installed on machine.Now if it is installed how to serarch for the path of its Executable to provide the parameter as I can not hardcode the path for different machines.
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Dec 6, 2010
Does anyone know of a decent OCR reader for .net?
I have some small images with text on them, i would like to use the ocr to give me the text from them..
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Feb 20, 2012
I have a program which writes to a .log file as it is installing software. Some of the lines will contain either WARNING or FAILED.
What I would like, is a window in my program which will read the .log file and display the content into this window as it is being written too. Any lines which contain WARNING or FAILED in them are highlighted yellow/red.
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Aug 19, 2010
I am trying to make a simple log parser that pulls info from a constant (real time updating) log file.it is CONSTANTLY being updated, and i'm having issues. [code] Basically, its messing up when its time to rescan it. I can't use the 'New' on it, as it throws a error on the stream reader.And if it's throwing an error with that, i'd be curious what other errors it will throw.The file doesnt necessarily HAVE to be deleted, but it DOES have to be cleared out. (so the program doesnt have to reparse all the lines).
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Feb 28, 2012
I am having an issue with both Adobe Reader and FoxIt Reader when trying to print a PDF document. Both issues are different but a solution to either one will allow me to fix my issue.The issue I am having with Adobe Reader when trying to print using the following code is that it will not print it to the network printer I specify but just the default printer.
Dim AdobeReader As New Process
AdobeReader.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = False
AdobeReader.StartInfo.Verb = "print"
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Jan 9, 2011
I want to create a textbox which contents are validated every time the text in it changes. And an image is displayed beside the textbox if it is correct and another image shows up if its not correct. Pretty much like ajax.
Heres the method which I called from the class.
Public Sub read1()
cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM testdb WHERE Name='" & name & "'"
Try
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Problem is, the method seems to be only called once. And the first image that was displayed stays the same even after inputting a data which does not exist in the database. I'm connecting this program to a mysql database using odbc.
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Jan 5, 2010
I'm beginner in this field and confuse with better method to use for text search. I'm intend to use it for specific length of string. For the text input, I'm using barcode. Also I need to fill a few field(text field) which I want the field automatically jump according to the text input(via the barcode). So, I'm figure 2 method and confused with it(hehe...):
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Apr 30, 2012
I have a text file name list.txt which contains data like following;
AC-No. Name Time State New State Exception
100 ZULFIQUAR 09/04/2012 01:53 PM C/In Invalid
100 ZULFIQUAR 10/04/2012 01:39 PM C/In Invalid
100 ZULFIQUAR 11/04/2012 01:38 PM C/In Invalid
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Mar 25, 2011
Here's my code to add new lines to my text file:
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When the button is pressed the line is written to the file just fine, but if I restart my application, which calls Refresh_OtherLog() onLoad, it displays the lines of the text file as one line with the traditional square character depicting a character return. Why is it not putting that new lone as a new line in the listbox?
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Jul 7, 2010
Alright so I have a webrequest on my program and it requests a login page, and I use the streamreader to read the webrequest and I set a textbox text as the text that I get from the site after the webrequest. The text I get is something like this:{"Code":null,"ConfirmationId ": 3023,"Description":null,"MessageType":"Success")I am wondering how do I get it to only get the text confirmation id (in this example it's 3023) and not the whole page.
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Dec 8, 2010
So i want to create a program (or specifically a part of a program -form?) that will be able to load a xml file.I have managed to save an xml file from a xlsx workbook, i want the program to be able to sort each column either by it's value if is a number or by it's text if it's a text , i would also like to have a range sort so the "program" will only show results from a specific range
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Feb 1, 2012
I am working on a code that can read and display the rfid tag onto a textbox. What I am stuck on at the moment is that it displays all of the code from when a card is swiped over the rfid reader and I only want it to display the UID code only. The rfid code that comes up is as below:
IC Type: Philips Mifare UltraLight
Card UID: 0x88 04 BD 3F 49 BB 02 80
ATQA Byte[1]: 0x00 ATQA Byte[0]: 0x44 SAK: 0x00
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