line replacing ideas

[rodchar]

hey all,
i have 2 notepad files and i want to replace every 3rd line in 1 of the
notepad files with the exact same line in the other notepad file. what's the
easiest way to do this?

thanks,
rodchar

[Steve Long]

I'd check out the StreamReader and StreamWriter classes in the
documentation...

Steve

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hey all,
i have 2 notepad files and i want to replace every 3rd line in 1 of the
notepad files with the exact same line in the other notepad file. what's
the
easiest way to do this?

thanks,
rodchar

[Tim Patrick]

Here's some pseudocode that may meet your needs.

Dim position As Integer = 0

Open the first file
Open the second file
Open the output file

While (both input files still have data)
Read in one line from both input files

position += 1
If ((position Mod 3) = 0) Then
Write out line from second input file
Else
Write out line from first input file
End If
Loop

Close all files

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Tim Patrick
Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005

hey all,
i have 2 notepad files and i want to replace every 3rd line in 1 of
the
notepad files with the exact same line in the other notepad file.
what's the
easiest way to do this?
thanks,
rodchar

[rodchar]

thanks for the tips everyone.

"Tim Patrick" wrote:

Here's some pseudocode that may meet your needs.

Dim position As Integer = 0

Open the first file
Open the second file
Open the output file

While (both input files still have data)
Read in one line from both input files

position += 1
If ((position Mod 3) = 0) Then
Write out line from second input file
Else
Write out line from first input file
End If
Loop

Close all files

-----
Tim Patrick
Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005

hey all,
i have 2 notepad files and i want to replace every 3rd line in 1 of
the
notepad files with the exact same line in the other notepad file.
what's the
easiest way to do this?
thanks,
rodchar