Getting line by searching for a string in a txt file

[warheart]

hi
im kinda new to programming

i aint lazy to search and learn :D
but i am getting despirate...

ive been looking everywhere for a code to search a txt file and find a string,
and then give me the line where the string is at.

i found some codes with streamreader in it, but i gave errors.
and by puttin IO would fix that problem, but then some i couldnt seem to solve.
(i dun even know what change IO made)

basically i just want to get info out of the txt file. (2 coloms of words)
and this by searching for a string.

just to make it really clear (i hope)
I enter a string,
it then looks up the string in the txt file,
find the line where the string is in, if it cant be found it gives an error
when it is found it copies the string behind that string to a variable.

(this is where the txt file looks like)
*.txt
azerty yuiop
qsddfg gklmh
ezfsdf gregdf

hope u guys can help me out
thx

[RedSon]

You could count the newline characters that you pass, that would give you a line number. If the ultimate goal for your application is to look up a token of text and then copy another token directly after it, all you need to do is find the token you want, then read the rest of the line to a buffer up to the next newline character.

Use this how-to to get you started:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...0d(VS.80).aspx