I want to read in a text file, I have never done this, and then II'm sure we can help you, but we'll need more info. How are the
want
to use a regular expression, because I think it would be easiest, to
go through that file line by line and pick out all the part numbers,
all of our part numbers start with AU- so what I would like to do is
read in c:\masterparts.txt and what I would really like to do is
display the whole text file in a label on the form making all text
GREY except for the part numbers, those would be highlighted in blue
or something, or if not that just display all the AU- found and the
number of times found. Can anyone help me with how to do this? >hanks
different Fields of your Text File separated - Commas, Spaces or
other
characters? Is the Part Number always at the same position on the
line
or can it be anywhere on the line? Is there more than one Part
Number
per line? Is the Text File very large (say, 500MB) or ever likely to
be?
Maybe provide a few lines as an example of what you're needing to
read.
ShaneO
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Yes I can provide a portion of my textfile. The textfile that we use
is always less than 2MB, after it gets that big we usually archive it
into a database.
a sample of the file:
Part number descriptions sorted by type and time built
========================================
AU-22453 Thermal paster AU-22468 Thermal paster control AU-22490
Thermal trial packs AU-22628 Control unit plates AU-22615 Paste dust
AU-226221503 NOX Connector
so what I want to do is just count the AU because I know anyhting
that
has an AU will be a part. All I want is to count and display the
number of current parts in the file. I would love to read the file
in, display it in grey text in a label and highlight all the AU in
say Green and then also display the count of the AU's. But having
just a message box with the count of parts will be just fine.
thanks for any help