Need help with loading text file into ListView (or other)

[fiveforty]

i'm a beginner vb.net programmer and would like some assistance with loading a txt file into some sort of a list.

 

What i have is:

a text file with some sort of delimiting method,

eg. firstname|lastname|age|etc...

or firstname:lastname:age:etc..

 

and i want to load this into some sort of a list with a column for each field, so:

 

______________________________

| first name | last name | age | etc...

------------------------------------------

nick thomas 34

john doe 23

 

etc

 

i currently have FileOpen and LineInput to read the file, but cannot get the fields into the columns in a ListView (i can parse it but don't know how to specify items.add to different columns).

 

Also how can i take the value of individual columns in a selected row and put them into TextBox 'es like First Name: Last name, etc?

 

sorry if this problem has been addressed before. any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

-michael

[Robby]

I posted a sample here, http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70864

 

I don't remember what's in it, but it does deal with a ListView so it may help.

[Heiko]

Write a routine that reads one line of text.

 

And then implement the following pseudocode.

 

Dim myLine as string
Dim myItems() as string 'array

open file

Do While Not file.eof
 myLine = ReadLine
 myItems = split(myLine)
 ... Process Items


Loop