Input string breaking on ","

[innominate]

Hello all,
I've been working on a prog that has an array of 16 combo boxes. These boxes are automatically filled upon loading with 127 different options. When I started defining a file structure to save my prog within I ran into some trouble. I decided that for ease of use (so I would not have to parse 0), I would take those 16 different settings and convert them to a character (ascii/ansi chr range 0 - 255) and this would take up much less space (one byte instead of a max of 3). However, I've ran into a problem with loading the data back in. It seems that whenever vb encounters a 44 or a "," it breaks off the remainder of the string. I'm just loading the data as a single (somewhat long) string.

I haven't had much time to look into it, but I was wondering if anyone has had similar problems, and/or knows of a solution to my dilemma?

(BTW I'm using VB 6.0 Ent)

Thanks!

[paulw]

You may have no name, but there is no code either. Show me a snippet and we'll see what we can do.

Cheers,

P.

[Yonatan]

You're probably experiencing this because you are using the Input statement. Try Line Input instead.
It works the same but reads an entire line from the file, as it is (without any parsing).

If that's not the problem, can you provide a snippet or two of your code?

[innominate]

Thanks Yonatan, the Line Input statement worked. I thought I had already tried it, but what I had tried was on a totally different function .

Thanks again!

[Edited by innominate on 11-15-2000 at 05:07 PM]