loading problom im having

[braindeadblake]

Ok the form will have a combo box with 3 items in it (ON ENTER,ON EXIT and ON BLAH) there is also a richtextbox and a file stored in C:\POPdata.txt (below shows whats in the txt file)
now what i want to do is when the user selects one of the items i need it to load that section and make richtextbox just that section for example if ON ENTER is selected it would just load

AFDASDFASDGFAS
DGHSGSFGSFGSG
3645635634444
From
ON ENTER {
AFDASDFASDGFAS
DGHSGSFGSFGSG
3645635634444
}
================================TXT FILE===============
ON EXIT {
FFFFFFFGGGGG'
FFFFFFFVVVVVV
HSHGSGHSGL;K
}

ON ENTER {
AFDASDFASDGFAS
DGHSGSFGSFGSG
364563563

ON BLAH {
4444444444
XXXXXXXXXX
DXXXXXDDD
XXXXXXXXXA
FFFFFFFFF
}

thanks for your help!

[IROY55]

If I undestand you correctly you need to open a file and load some data from it into a let's say a textbox based on currewnt user selection. If that's the case thenyou may follwo this simple logic:

Dim strLine As String
Dim Flag As Boolean
Dim strText As String
 
Open myfile For Input As #1
    Do
        Line Input #1, strLine
        If LCase(strLine) = "my text" Then
            'set Flag
            If Flag = True then str Text =strText & strLine & vbNewLine
        End If
    Loop Until EOF(1)
Close #1
Text1.Text = strText

[IROY55]

A small correction:

Dim strLine As String
Dim Flag As Boolean
Dim strText As String
 
Open myfile For Input As #1
    Do
        Flag = False
        Line Input #1, strLine
        If LCase(strLine) = "my text" Then
            Flag = True
        End If
        If Flag = True then str Text =strText & strLine & vbNewLine
    Loop Until EOF(1)
Close #1
Text1.Text = strText

[Aaron Young]

Or

Private msBuffer As String
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
  OpenFile "C:\POPData.txt"
  List1.AddItem "ON EXIT"
  List1.AddItem "ON ENTER"
  List1.AddItem "ON BLAH"
End Sub
 
Private Sub List1_Click()
  If List1.ListIndex < 0 Then Exit Sub
  
  Text1.Text = GetSection(List1.List(List1.ListIndex))
End Sub
 
Private Sub OpenFile(ByVal sFile As String)
  Dim iFile As Integer
  
  iFile = FreeFile
  Open sFile For Binary Access Read As iFile
    msBuffer = Space(LOF(iFile))
    Get #iFile, , msBuffer
  Close iFile
End Sub
 
Function GetSection(ByVal sSection As String) As String
  Dim lPos As Long
  
  lPos = InStr(1, msBuffer, sSection & " {" & vbCrLf, vbTextCompare)
  If lPos = 0 Then Exit Function
  lPos = lPos + Len(sSection) + 4
  GetSection = Mid(msBuffer, lPos, InStr(lPos, msBuffer, vbCrLf & "}", vbTextCompare) - lPos)
End Function

[braindeadblake]

that code worked great thanks it was just what i was looking for but now how would i save just that section to the file without deleting the rest of the stuff there?