How to move text from a text file to a text box line by line

[Monster55Me]

Alrighty, so I have a text file with a lot of different things in, but what I want is for when a button is pressed, only 1 row of text is shown. For example the text file says
Potato - Potato
I want the text box to say only Potato - Potato, nothing else in the file until the button is clicked again, which then will move onto showing the next line of text. If this is possible let me know, best way of informing me how it is done is by video as I find it the easiest, but text is fine, pictures will be very helpful also. Thanks.

[Frinavale]

Well, you need to read the file into memory and then use the StreamReader.Readline Method to retrieve the next line and display it.

Check out the link for an example of how to use the ReadLine method.

-Frinny

[Monster55Me]

Read the file into memory? Could you expand? I'm quite new to VB, sorry... Thanks for the help though :)

[Frinavale]

The example in the documentation demonstrates it pretty well.

This example creates a new file that it then reads in (if the file exists before creation it deletes the file and creates a new one).

Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
 
Public Class Test
 
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim path As String = "c:\temp\MyTest.txt" 
 
        Try 
            If File.Exists(path) Then
                File.Delete(path)
            End If 
 
            Dim sw As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(path)
            sw.WriteLine("This")
            sw.WriteLine("is some text")
            sw.WriteLine("to test")
            sw.WriteLine("Reading")
            sw.Close()
 
            Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader(path)
 
            Do While sr.Peek() >= 0
                Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadLine())
            Loop
            sr.Close()
        Catch e As Exception
            Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString())
        End Try 
    End Sub 
End Class

The Peek method is used to check if the stream that contains the file has another line available for reading. If the Peek method returns a line that has a lenght greater than 0 it reads it in and displays it on the screen.

The try/catch block is there in case something goes wrong creating the file or reading the file.

-Frinny