Please HELP?????

hi all, :afrog: :eek2: :cry: :eek2: :cry: :eek2: :cry: :eek2:

as part of an assignment at uni i've got to develop a pay calculating program (thats the easy bit). i've been given a notepad file to use, which has to be use via the "open" and "close" functions. all ok so far...

i can't seem to pick bits out of the file that i need, i can only get information off the first line and when i want something in the middle of the line (for example) it will display everything up to that charecter in the textbox. if anyone can help me, please mail me - [email protected] i have msn messenger and/or i can send you the worksheet file if that makes more sense.

PLEASE HELP!!! - its worth 75% of my grade and all i've done so far is design the form and declare 2 variables (oh yeah, and open and close the notepad file)

thank you
Ree :cry: :eek: :cry: :( :confused:

Welcome to the Forums.

You shouldnt post your email since the forums are scanned by bots regularly, unless you like spam ;)
Members can contact you through your profile's email that you might have choosen to display.

For your assignment, members usually dont like to help do homework but they will help in guiding you to the right path.
If you show an effort usually you can get some pointers/suggestions on it. ;)

Post the code you have that doesn't work... (indicate the line) and you may get a response.

As RobDog posted, members do not usually like to give answers to homework questions as it means you a) pass that part easily and b) fail miserably in the exam/tutor asks you to explain how you did it.


One thing I found that does help (in projects) is to flowchart what you want to happen. Pseudo code also helps.

You need to read up on string manipulation functions (I'll list them below and you can work up some code).
Close
Open
Line Input
Left$ (or Left)
Right$ (or Right)
Mid$ (or Mid)
Instr
Instrrev (not sure but there is a useful reverse of instr function)
Print

Read up, and write some code (or flowchart and write some code) and if it still isn't working, post you code (the code button above gives you the tags to surround your code and make it easier for us to read)