[RESOLVED] Read plain text delimited by fieldnames

Hi,

for example I have this plain text:

Quote:

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ID=100000CUSTOMER=JohnAMOUNT=2300020INVOICES=123CALLS=12ID=100001CUSTOMER=MaryAMOUNT=589INVOICES=2CA LLS=0ID=1002122CUSTOMER=DanielAMOUNT=8900000INVOICES=5CALLS=1

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etc etc

Where "ID", "CUSTOMER", "AMOUNT", "INVOICES", "CALLS" are fields and I need get its values.

is there any way, most automatic possible, to recover those values? If they were delimited by fixed delimiter, I could do it with split......


thanks in advance

You can try something like this:

Code:

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'Create a datatable to hold the records
        Dim myTable As New DataTable()
        With myTable.Columns
            .Add("ID", GetType(Integer))
            .Add("CUSTOMER", GetType(String))
            .Add("AMOUNT", GetType(Decimal))
            .Add("INVOICES", GetType(Integer))
            .Add("CALLS", GetType(Integer))
        End With
        'Start parsing the text into records and populate the datatable
        Dim txt As String = "ID=100000CUSTOMER=JohnAMOUNT=2300020INVOICES=123CALLS=12ID=100001CUSTOMER=MaryAMOUNT=589INVOICES=2CA LLS=0ID=1002122CUSTOMER=DanielAMOUNT=8900000INVOICES=5CALLS=1"
        Dim delimiters() As String = {"ID="}
        Dim records() As String = txt.Split(delimiters, System.StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
        For Each record As String In records
            Dim fields() As String = record.Split("=".ToCharArray)
            If fields.Length = 5 Then
                Dim row As DataRow = myTable.NewRow()
                row("ID") = CInt(fields(0).Replace("CUSTOMER", ""))
                row("CUSTOMER") = fields(1).Replace("AMOUNT", "")
                row("AMOUNT") = CDec(fields(2).Replace("INVOICES", ""))
                row("INVOICES") = CInt(fields(3).Replace("CALLS", ""))
                row("CALLS") = CInt(fields(4))
                myTable.Rows.Add(row)
            End If
        Next

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stanav, thank you very much. Perfect example :-)