I apoligise if the post discription is not correct or detailed enough!

I have read the forum from page 1 to 30 but I am not sure what I am actually looking for.
I am a new user of the 2005 beta editon of Visual Basic so my terminology will not be real precise.
(new to the forum so hopefully I have posted in the correct area for help with Visual Basic 2005 express beta)
So please be patient with me.


I am trying to read a .txt file and extract certain lines
So that I can preform a graph for the information contained in the txt file.
Is thier a way to search the text file for certain lines and print that out to another file.
This is an example
If it reads
Place=12
I want the 12 to show up on my new form with the 12 being placed in a textbox defined by me.
The Place=#will differ per driver
Driver=Mark j
The drivers name will differ also
I want Mark j to show up under "Driver" on my graph style form.
and so on.
Hopefully that makes some sense.
After I see a small demonstration of how one might go about doing this I think I can continue on with this project.


What I have at the moment is just the basic open the text file and it shows up in my text box.lol
I want it to open the text file sort out the needed entries and only show those in a graph.
Thier will be up too 43 [Slot] Entries that need to be sorted out.
Place=
Driver=
Qualification=
among other entries I will be needing to extract from the text file
If you Have any Ideas I would appreciate the help
Some posts here seemed to be kinda what I was looking for but I guess I just need to see it work with what I am using to fully understand.
I will be searching a text file like below
Each driver entered into the game has his or her own SLOT



[Slot]
Place=12
SlotID=0
Control=2
Driver=Mark j
VehicleName=#48
VehicleFile=GAMEDATA\VEHICLES\2005 IROC\IROC\48\48.VEH
GarageIndex=0
PitIndex=11
DNF=1
DNF Reason=4
DQ=0
LapsLead=0
Best Lap Time=39.679
Best Lap Start=18.991
Total ET=0.000
Total Laps=1
Lap=(0, -1.000, 39.679)
Sector 0 Best=39.679
Sector 1 Best=11.469
Sector 2 Best=28.328
Total Fines=0.000000
Qualification=12

The number of lines differ depending on how many laps were completed by a participant here is another SLOT that has a different number of lines because of the # of laps completed by the driver in the race

[Slot]
Place=7
SlotID=1
Control=4
Driver=JJ Yeley
VehicleName=#80
VehicleFile=GAMEDATA\VEHICLES\2005 IROC\IROC\80\80.VEH
GarageIndex=0
PitIndex=5
DNF=0
DNF Reason=0
DQ=0
LapsLead=0
Best Lap Time=36.100
Best Lap Start=274.921
Total ET=1698.919
Total Laps=44
Lap=(0, -1.000, 39.388)
Lap=(1, 57.549, 59.946)
Lap=(2, 117.495, 53.704)
Lap=(3, 171.199, 66.009)
Lap=(4, 237.208, 37.712)
Lap=(5, 274.921, 37.586)
Lap=(6, 312.507, 38.609)
Lap=(7, 351.116, 38.433)
Sector 0 Best=37.586
Sector 1 Best=10.619
Sector 2 Best=27.246
Total Fines=0.000000
Qualification=6

That is why I need to search for certain text fields to produce a accurate reading of the text file.
Depending on laps completed the
Qualification entry would be farther down the list so reading a certain line number would produce a different result
The First slot qualification= entry is line 25 and the second Slot example Qualification= is line 31
So I think I would have to search for the line
Qualification= then produce the number folowing that entry.

I hope I am making sense


If you can help me I would really appreciate it!
I will be honest with you I have not done much programming at all. I have written a few small programs that are just tutorial exercises but as far as writing one without guidance I am totally lost when it comes to new things I have not read about.
Just an example of loading the text file and searching it for Driver= and Place= and listing each onto different seperate text boxes would help alot so I can see how to have the search string set up, to search for multiple entries.
To produce the desired effect.



Thank you for your time.

Mark