How to check for EOF (End of file) when using StreamReader to parse text file

[Sacha Korell]

How would I check for an end of file when parsing a text file using the
StreamReader object?

I would like to do something like this:

'************** *************** ***
Dim objStreamReader As StreamReader
Dim strReqLine As String

objStreamReader = File.OpenText(" data.txt")

While NOT objStreamReader .EOF

strReqLine = objStreamReader .ReadLine

'* Code to parse the line for data

End While
'************** *************** ***

Except the StreamReader object doesn't seem to have an EOF property. Are
there any work-arounds?

Thanks,

Sacha

[S. Justin Gengo]

Sacha,

Just use:

While StreamReader.Re ad

End While

It will stop when it hits EOF.

Sincerely,

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"Sacha Korell" <ko****@huntsvi lle.sparta.com> wrote in message
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How would I check for an end of file when parsing a text file using the
StreamReader object?

I would like to do something like this:

'************** *************** ***
Dim objStreamReader As StreamReader
Dim strReqLine As String

objStreamReader = File.OpenText(" data.txt")

While NOT objStreamReader .EOF

strReqLine = objStreamReader .ReadLine

'* Code to parse the line for data

End While
'************** *************** ***

Except the StreamReader object doesn't seem to have an EOF property. Are
there any work-arounds?

Thanks,

Sacha

[Mattias Sjögren]

Sacha,

strReqLine = objStreamReader .ReadLine()
While Not strReqLine Is Nothing
'* Code to parse the line for data
strReqLine = objStreamReader .ReadLine()
End While

Mattias

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