[2008] read every line in a text file seperatly

Hi everyone,

How would i go about reading a text file from beginning to end but reading it as lines and not one huge string. For example if the text file contained 2 lines and the strings on each line were "line1" and "line2" ,respectively, how would i go about reading line1 then reacting to the value of line1 then reading line2 then reacting to it and so on. i think i could get it working if there were going to only two lines and i know what the values are but i don't. the actual values can be anything and the length in lines can be 30 (for now). any help would be great because i have been stuck on tis fro an hour. So thanks to all who can help.

vb.net Code:

'declared at class level
Dim myfile = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFieldParser("C:\test.txt")
 
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
' when button1 is clicked we output the next line from our file in a message box
        Messagebox.Show(myfile.ReadLine())
    End Sub

Obviously you dont have to show it in a messagebox and you dont have to have the readline() code in a button event handler but hopefully you get the idea.

thanks that helped. i was over complicating it. was try to do loops and if thens and stuff but this worked fine.

No problem. There's other ways you can do it but thats probably the simplest.