Streaming Text

[ethanwa]

Thanks for all the help tonight guys. I'm trying to open a text file and have portions of the text fill text controls on my form. What's the best way to go about opening a text file and having it read up to a certain point. For example here is a text file:


This is line 1 of my text file
this is the second line
The third line may look like this.
And the forth is here.


How can I open a file and have it put whatever is inbetween the word "third" and "forth" and put it in a control?

Thank again for the help. I'm quite the beginner with text modification and VB.NET

-- Ethan --

[Pirate]

Did you search the Forum ? It's heavily asked about that.

[ethanwa]

I have done a little searching and found some stuff but my question is a little different. Here's an example of almost exactly what the text file will look like:

#HELP

-1 TEST~
~
-1 MERC~
~
92 MERC~
~
40 SHIELD 'STONE SKIN'~
~
0 $~

Ok... to make things easier to understand, $ means the end of the file and #HELP is the start. Each number represents a "Level" and each word or set of words is a "Keyword". Basically, I need to find a way to get each "Keyword" into a big drop-down combo box. Then when I select the "Keyword", the corresponding "Level" will appear in a text box next to it.

Where's a good place to start. I've looked a little into the following example but I'm not sure it's the best option for me. Let me know what you all think...

dim SampleStr as String="001,Mickey Mouse ,5000,200"
dim parts() as String=SampleStr.Split(",")
Msgbox(parts(0))
Msgbox(parts(1))
Msgbox(parts(2))
Msgbox(parts(3))

-- Ethan --