Reading a textfile

[gomindi]

I've come across another delima. I have written to a textfile, but I need a "separator" so that my data can be read into my text boxes. Can somebody please help me?! I am lost:(

 

Thanks! Mindi

[Volte]

What's the format of your textfile right now? Can you paste an

excerpt from it so that I know exactly what you need?

[gomindi]

the format is simply a text file. .txt

 

thisistochecktoseeifthiscreatesanewfile

 

I want each word(I typed each word into a separate text box, write to a file) and now I want each word to show up on a form, each in it's own text box.

[Volte]

Oh, ok. Then when you write the text file, add some delimeter (a

comma, or something; make sure it doesn't appear in any of the words

you want to retrieve from the file). So your file might looks like this:

 

The,quick,brown,fox,jumps,over,the,lazy,dog

 

When you read the textfile, read it all in at once, and use the Split

function of the string you read it into, like

Dim words() As String
Dim fileIn As String

'Read your file into the fileIn variable here

words = fileIn.Split(",")

And now you will be left with words(), an array of strings containing

all of the words from your text file. Loop through them and do whatever

you wish with them (adding them to textboxes, I guess).

[gomindi]

Uh, I am a beginner (as if you couldn't tell!) but could you maybe help me with the code for read your file into the filein variable portion? Sorry I know this is probably super menial to you. But I really appreciate your help!!! THanks! Mindi

[Volte]

Try something like this:

Dim fileIn As String
Dim sr As New IO.StreamReader("C:\file.txt")

fileIn = sr.ReadToEnd()
sr.Close()