[RESOLVED] Reading from a file

[drdress]

I'm trying to read lines from a file using:

Dim FileLine As String = ""
Dim File As Integer = FreeFile()

Open "C:\text.txt" for Line Input # File

But I get this error:

'Open' is not declared. File I/O functionality is available in the 'Microsoft.VisualBasic' namespace.

I tried to add Microsoft.VisualBasic as a reference, but it didn't work. Any help?

[Joacim Andersson]

What you're trying todo is to use old VB6 code. That will not work. Add an Import statement to include System.IO and use code similar to this:

Dim reader As New StreamReader("c:\text.txt")
Dim firstLine As String = reader.ReadLine()
Dim theRestOfTheText As String = reader.ReadToEnd()
reader.Close

OK, you probably don't just want to read the first line and then the rest but I just wanted to show what the two most used methods look like. If you want to read it line by line you can do something like this:

Do While Not reader.EndOfStream
    fileLine = reader.ReadLine() '<- This assumes you have already declared fileLine as a string
    'do whatever
Loop 
reader.Close

[drdress]

That did the trick. Thank!