Reading x characters from a file and parsing it.

[Fred]

I have a text file that has records in it 801 characters long with | as a
separator between fields in the records (no CRLF between fields). I know I
can use the split method to separate out the data once I've read it in. But
how can I get the data in. It seems like the only thing I can do is read it
in as a byte/char array and then concatenate the values to make a string.
Nothing that returns a string seems to be able to let me specify how much
data to read.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Ken Dopierala Jr.]

Hi,

The code below should put the 801 charachters into a string for you. Don't
forget to import System.IO.

Dim fs As New FileStream(mstrFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
Dim sReader As New StreamReader(fs)
Dim arrChar() As Char
Dim strData As String
sreader.Read(arrChar, (801 * (intRecordNumber - 1), 801)
strData = arrChar

Good luck! Ken.

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I have a text file that has records in it 801 characters long with | as a
separator between fields in the records (no CRLF between fields). I know I
can use the split method to separate out the data once I've read it in. But how can I get the data in. It seems like the only thing I can do is read it in as a byte/char array and then concatenate the values to make a string.
Nothing that returns a string seems to be able to let me specify how much
data to read.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Cor Ligthert]

Fred,

When you not are looking for the method from Ken, than you probably can use
the readline method it reads everytime a line untill the crlf

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...dLineTopic.asp

I hope this helps?

Cor

"Fred" <Fr**@NoWhere.com> .

I have a text file that has records in it 801 characters long with | as a
separator between fields in the records (no CRLF between fields). I know I
can use the split method to separate out the data once I've read it in. But
how can I get the data in. It seems like the only thing I can do is read it
in as a byte/char array and then concatenate the values to make a string.
Nothing that returns a string seems to be able to let me specify how much
data to read.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.