[shaky120]

Hey everyone, save section works fine, but with the load section i can only get it to display all the text or the first line of text of the txt file, im trying to get the program to display the 2nd line of saved text, or 3rd line etc.
Thanks..

Shaky

code

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Buttonsave.Click
Dim file As System.IO.StreamWriter
file = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter("c:\intel\zz.txt", True)
file.WriteLine("Here is the first string." & RichTextBox1.Text)

file.Close()
End Sub

Private Sub Buttonload_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Buttonload.Click
Dim fileReader As System.IO.StreamReader
fileReader = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileReader("C:\intel\zz.txt")
Dim stringReader As String
stringReader = fileReader.ReadLine



Do While fileReader.Peek() >= 0
Console.WriteLine(fileReader.ReadLine())
RichTextBox1.Text = fileReader.ReadToEnd
Loop
End Sub

/code

[djjeavons]

Hi

One option would be to read the entire contents of the file into a string array by splitting the text file based on the carriage return character and then only output the necessary element of the string array. For example:

Dim fileReader As New System.IO.StreamReader("Path to your file")
Dim fileContents() As String = fileReader.ReadToEnd.Split(ControlChars.Cr)

'To display the second line of text use:
MessageBox.Show(fileContents(1))

HTH

[shaky120]

Hey, thanks alot mate, worked a treat.

Thanks

Shaky