Commas in strings

frankleggett

Hi

I am trying to program a simple program in Visual Basic which saves various lines of text into simple text files, then another program loads these text files as strings and outputs them to the screen. My problem is I cannot output a string completely if the text file contains a comma. For example (John Smith, Engineer) will only display as "John Smith" with ", Enginner" being ignored. Can some on give me an idea of how to get round this as all I want is the string to contain exactly what is in the text file.

Frank Leggett

Nov 16 '06 #1

willakawill

Hi

I am trying to program a simple program in Visual Basic which saves various lines of text into simple text files, then another program loads these text files as strings and outputs them to the screen. My problem is I cannot output a string completely if the text file contains a comma. For example (John Smith, Engineer) will only display as "John Smith" with ", Enginner" being ignored. Can some on give me an idea of how to get round this as all I want is the string to contain exactly what is in the text file.

Frank Leggett

Hi Frank
Best thing would be to post the code you are using. That will get the fastest and best response
Thanks

Nov 16 '06 #2

albertw

Hi

I am trying to program a simple program in Visual Basic which saves various lines of text into simple text files, then another program loads these text files as strings and outputs them to the screen. My problem is I cannot output a string completely if the text file contains a comma. For example (John Smith, Engineer) will only display as "John Smith" with ", Enginner" being ignored. Can some on give me an idea of how to get round this as all I want is the string to contain exactly what is in the text file.

Frank Leggett

hi

try reading your file with

Line Input #......instead of Input #....

Nov 16 '06 #3

frankleggett

Thanks alot, Line Input works fine.

Frank

Nov 16 '06 #4