I have done a lot of searching for a code sample of reading a file line by line and extracting text based on its position but haven't come up with anything usefull. I can read each line with this:
Code:
' Need to find the 1st and 10th position in the sample
' text file.
    Private Sub ReadFile()
        Dim oread As StreamReader = _
            File.OpenText("C:\sample.txt")
        While oread.Peek <> -1
            Debug.Write(oread.ReadLine() & vbNewLine)
        End While
        oread.Close()
    End Sub
I have a text file that has no visable delimiter like a comman etc. The coloulmns are determined by the position in the file. For instance:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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M i k e S m i t h

The first name starts at position 1 and the last name starts at position 5 (I don't think it will line up right in the mock up above but that is the idea). Does anybody have a sample peice of code they could point me to?