Select parts of a file...

[airedale]

I am trying to open a dat file and move to certain positions in it (like char #4 and take the next 4 characters from it). What command is there to move through a file like that? This is the file I am trying to move through in case anyone wants to see it.

[Athley]

You can use a BinaryReader to read characters from the file.

Dim s As Stream = File.OpenRead("c:\Test.txt")
Dim br As New BinaryReader(s)
Dim c As Integer
Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder()

s.Seek(4, SeekOrigin.Begin)

For c = 1 To 4
    sb.Append(Strings.Chr(br.ReadByte))
Next

TextBox1.Text = sb.ToString

[airedale]

so this looks pretty straight forward. I am going to have to play around with it to see if I understand it all... thanks for the input.