reading .txt with records longer then 1025 characters

[jeffstl]

I have just been handed a project to determine a file format for a file upload of mass amounts of data.

I have done this exact program before but for records that were 864 characters in length in notepad.

The format I need to set up will far exceed the 1025 notepad limit length and therefore create a new line.

I could set up a loop that treats 2 or 3 lines as a single record, however I am envisioning all kinds of problems with this, especially if one record has more or less data then another I would have to write out spaces to push the full length for each record.

On another note though I notice that Notepad++ doesn't have the same limitations.

I would imagine though that VB 6.0 will read in a line from notepad as a 1025 character string period regardless of what I do ?

In other words is there anything that anyone is aware of that will have VB treat a .txt line read differently so that a single line read can go farther then the 1025 limit of notepad?

[kadghar]

In other words is there anything that anyone is aware of that will have VB treat a .txt line read differently so that a single line read can go farther then the 1025 limit of notepad?

A string can be of any length, and what VB reads as next line is the 'next line' character.

So as long as you dont have Chr(13) <--- line change in your string, you'll only have one line.

So if you want to have a single-lined string in VB, just use the REPLACE function to get rid of Chr(13) (and Chr(10) too)

e.g.

lets say you read your txt file into a string (Str1), then just

str1 = replace(str1,chr(13),"")
str1 = replace(str1,chr(10),"")

HTH

[jeffstl]

A string can be of any length, and what VB reads as next line is the 'next line' character.

So as long as you dont have Chr(13) <--- line change in your string, you'll only have one line.

So if you want to have a single-lined string in VB, just use the REPLACE function to get rid of Chr(13) (and Chr(10) too)

e.g.

lets say you read your txt file into a string (Str1), then just

str1 = replace(str1,chr(13),"")
str1 = replace(str1,chr(10),"")

HTH

Ok. That is a good point. I will try that and see if it will ignore notepad limit of 1025 columns.

I will post when I get back on that project to update thread.