vb 2008 reading through and splitting text in a resource textfile?

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hi,

i have an application where i have created a textfile in the resources section of my project and wanted to know if anyone can tell me how i can read that textfile and split the text in it?

i have tried the following two methods but they don't work where i am wanting to display the contents of my text file 'ResourceFile.txt' into a textbox called 'FileReader'.

VB

Dim fileReader As String
fileReader = FileSystem.ReadAllText("ResourceFile.txt")
FileReader.Text.Split(fileReader, " ")

and

VB

Imports system.IO
Dim ioFile as new StreamReader("ResourceFile.txt")
Dim ioLine as string
Dim ioLines as string
ioLine = ioFile.ReadLine
ioLines = ioLine
While not ioLine = ""
ioLine = ioFile.ReadLine
ioLines = ioLines & vbcrlf & ioLine
End While
FileReader.Text.Split = (ioLines, " ")
ioFile.close

thanks to any helpers.

Posted 16-Sep-10 7:02am

hamza_786

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Kschuler · Answer 1 · 2010-09-16T07:50:00

Try this:

VB

Dim fileReader As String
fileReader = FileSystem.ReadAllText("ResourceFile.txt")
FileReader.Text=fileReader

And by the way, it's very confusing and general bad practice to have a string named fileReader and a textbox named FileReader. You need to start using some kind of naming convention before you go crazy. Put some kind of code before your variable name to distinguish that it's a string or a textbox. For example, name your textbox txtFileReader and the string strFileReader.

Hope this helps.