how can my program get info from the file it opens

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Hello,
I have made my program to open .abc files.My program needs some info from every file it opens to work. How do i do that so my program get info from the file it opens.Please Help!

Posted 11-Dec-11 8:25am

Juljano

Updated 11-Dec-11 8:47am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 11-Dec-11 15:21pm

"Some info" ... Anything else you want to tell us?

[no name] 11-Dec-11 15:54pm

Like Manfred R. Bihy wrote, one needs some more info about what info you need from the file....e.g. create/mdfy date, size, ....

Juljano 11-Dec-11 16:12pm

i want to save a listbox's items into a .txt file or something then i want my program to open that file and get the items that are in it and use them ..

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Member 7775337 · Answer 1 · 2011-12-19T12:01:00

you first need to import io streams this goes before you declare your module

VB

imports system.io

You then use an io streamreader to read the abc files.

VB

Dim reader As New StreamReader("url")
Dim str As String
str = reader.ReadToEnd()
reader.Close()
reader = New StreamReader("url")
str = reader.ReadToEnd()
reader.Close()

Replace url with something like C:\users\1.abc
Hope this is what you were looking for.
James