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Import Data from a text file

 
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Import Data from a text file
brottmayer
16 Mar, 2007 - 07:31 AM
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How do you select a specific line from an open file and input those specific into a designated textbox?

When I open up a file with the opendialog() and then select the file that I want to import(or to pull data from). This is the text file setup that I am trying to get the information from:

--------------------------------------------------------
ASSIGN.RSM A 6:00:00 "Initialize Times"
ASSIGN.RSM B 6:10:59
ASSIGN.RSM C 6:02:02
--------------------------------------------------------

Now I want to input the first line if they select A, which designates the first line of the text file and then from there to input the 6 in textbox1.text and 00 into textbox2.text and 00 into textbox3.text. Now if they select B, then it'll pull the information from line 2 and put the 6 in textbox1.text and the 10 in textbox2.text and etc. How would I go about doing that? Thanks.
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16 Mar, 2007 - 10:18 AM
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use the open syntax from msdn (open <file number> <type> <file path>, etc), then read the data into a collection (using A, B, C, etc as the key) and then when the key is selected / typed in to the textbox, bring in the value that is correspondent to the collection key. Example - collection contains 3 keys, A, B, and C, and A contains the first line, B contains the second line of data, and C contains the third line. When the user types in A, retrieve the value for A by using the collection.items("A") syntax.
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use the open syntax from msdn (open <file number> <type> <file path>, etc), then read the data into a collection (using A, B, C, etc as the key) and then when the key is selected / typed in to the textbox, bring in the value that is correspondent to the collection key. Example - collection contains 3 keys, A, B, and C, and A contains the first line, B contains the second line of data, and C contains the third line. When the user types in A, retrieve the value for A by using the collection.items("A") syntax.



tody4me, could you please direct me to the article that MSDN has describing what you are saying? I've looked "everywhere." Thanks.

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