Need help to build a tiny application - extract,sort and display data from text file

[waleed]

Hello,
I'm beginner in programming via VB, i learned C,C++ and i'm working with DCL.
I need to build a little application that can help me working.
Every day i'm receiving a huge text file with over 10000 lines full of informations that i have to check, analyze and extract status of few things.
It takes me 3 to 4 hours to finish.
I can not explain more because it is confidential.

The information in the text file is separated by some characters like

||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
##########################################
******************************
[
and few letters and keywords.

what i want to do is to build an app that opens the file and separate the contents and shows a tab for each sector (they are about 25)
when i click a tab it shows down on left 10 or 12 more tabs with the titles like status, date...
and when i click on them it takes the info from the file and show it on the right.

& it will run on WINxp.

I know it is simple for a programmer but i'm not yet a confirmed one
Please can you help me doing this or may be just tell me in which programming language it will be easier or faster.
Thank you.

[tsungik]

Show as an example of your input data, how it looks like.. and a sample desired output so we could have an idea on what you are asking for.

[waleed]

This is how it looks:

------------------------------------------------------------
mNODE NAMEm
------------------------------------------------------------
************************************************************
************************************************************
RUN TIME
------------------------------------------------------------
5-JUN-2008 06:37:23.75 runtime 27 15:36:55
5-JUN-2008 06:37:23.76 runtime 27 15:14:24
------------------------------------------------------------
END RUN TIME
************************************************************
BACKUP CHECK
------------------------------------------------------------
Last backup start at 4-JUN-2008 22:00:00.06
Last backup finished at 5-JUN-2008 01:06:21.63
Batch queue BACKUP$QUEUE, idle, on NODENAME::
Entry Jobname Username Status
----- ------- -------- ------
111 SYSBACKUP SYSTEM Holding until 5-JUN-2008 22:00:00.00

END BACKUP
************************************************************

it is longer but it is all separated like that
and i need to have fore example the "NODE NAME" buttons up and when i select, i will have on the right: "Run time", "BACKUP".....
And finally when i click on "RUN TIME" it will show

5-JUN-2008 06:37:23.75 runtime 27 15:36:55
5-JUN-2008 06:37:23.76 runtime 27 15:14:24

on the right of screen or wherever.