database question

[scratch_n_sniff]

The databasa is a .txt file and I need to get it working in a vb.net application. Is there a simple solution?

Thank you in advance!

[Hack]

Welcome to the forums.

"Get it working" means what?

What do you need to do with your text file, precisely and specifically?

[scratch_n_sniff]

Thanks for the reply!
First of all I said wrong, It's not a .txt file, its a .dbc which may look similar to this:
-------
NS_ :
NS_DESC_
CM_
BA_DEF_
BA_
VAL_
CAT_DEF_
CAT_
FILTER
BA_DEF_DEF_
EV_DATA_
ENVVAR_DATA_
SGTYPE_
SGTYPE_VAL_
BA_DEF_SGTYPE_
BA_SGTYPE_
SIG_TYPE_REF_
VAL_TABLE_
SIG_GROUP_
SIG_VALTYPE_
SIGTYPE_VALTYPE_

BS_:

BU_:


BO_ 100 Scratch_n_sniff: 2 Vector__XXX
SG_ Temp1 : 0|4@1+ (1,0) [-10|10] "C" Vector__XXX
SG_ Temp2 : 4|4@1+ (1,0) [-10|10] "C" Vector__XXX
SG_ varvtal : 8|8@1+ (1,0) [0|0] "" Vector__XXX


CM_ BO_ 100 "Module which has 2 signals";
CM_ SG_ 100 Temp1 "Tempsignal1";
CM_ SG_ 100 Temp2 "Tempsignal2";
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What I need to make is an application which can read and write to this .dbc file.

All help is appreciated!

[Hack]

Before we can do anything, we need to be able to connect to it.

What is a dbc file? What kind of format? How does it get created in the first place?

Outside of a program, how would you open it?

[scratch_n_sniff]

the .dbc file is created by a similar program I'm trying to make. If you open it in notepad it looks like what I posted above. I guess it doesn't necessarily need to be a .dbc-file, but it would still be nice if I got something together that was able to read the old .dbc-files.

To me it simply looks like a regular .txt-file saved as .dbc

[MarkDorf]

If it's just an ASCII text file with a different extension, you should be able to use System.IO.StreamWriter and System.IO.StreamReader to write to and read from(respectively) the file.

[Hack]

If it's just an ASCII text file with a different extension, you should be able to use System.IO.StreamWriter and System.IO.StreamReader to write to and read from(respectively) the file.

Mark is correct.

When I copied what you posted into Notepad, and I saved it as Hack.dbc, the file description that showed up in Explorer said "Microsoft Visual Foxpro Database Container"

When I double click on it, it wants to open the file using Foxpro.

However, when I ran this code

'I can write to it the same 
'way I write to a standard text file
Private Sub Command3_Click()
Dim sData As String
Dim sFilename As String
sFilename = "d:\hack.dbc"
 
Open sFilename For Append As #1
Print #1, "Hack Rules"
Close #1
 
End Sub
 
'I can open it and load it into a listbox the same way I can any standard
'text file
Private Sub Command2_Click()
Dim sData As String
Dim sFilename As String
sFilename = "d:\hack.dbc"
 
Open sFilename For Input As #1
While Not EOF(1)
    Line Input #1, sData
    List1.AddItem sData
Wend
Close #1
 
End Sub

So, it would appear as though the OS thinks it is a Foxpro file, but your VB.NET program code should be able to manipulate it like any standard text file.