Text file as database??? Maybe! [2005]

[m_s_ifland]

Ok here's the situation. Want to control if certain websites are accessed. I can put in a name such as "yahoo" or "vbcity" or whatever in the code and it works. But I want to be able to add name to the list without rewriting the program everytime I want to add a site. Is this possible with a simple text file?
The code below seems to retrieve the info that I need, but it puts 2 little squares between each name in the text file, I think then it looks for the site name with those 2 little suares added. If I just type one name in the text file it works, but when I type more than one, it doesn't. Thanks in advance.

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click 
        For Each proc As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("iexplore") 'calls internet explorer process 
 
            Dim intex As String = proc.MainWindowTitle.ToLower 'changes MainWindowTitle text to lower case 
            
            Dim fileContents As String 
 
            fileContents = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("C:\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\WindowsApplication1\WindowsApplication1\textfile1.txt") 'reads text file 
 
            If intex.Contains(fileContents) Then 
                MsgBox("Found Window!") 
 
            Else : MsgBox("Could not find window") 
            End If 
             
        Next 
 
    End Sub

Thank You,
Michael Ifland
Visual Basic.NET 2005

[BrendanDavis]

Well first of all you should have all the strings you're comparing do so in lower case, because you may not know the exact casing of each website title.

Second, you're loading a COMPLETE text file, and then checking the process caption against the WHOLE thing, which is a no-no. It won't work, because if you have two sites(i.e. "Yahoo!" and "Google"), it's going to check the process's caption for "Yahoo! Google", and not each individually.

What you could do, is have the text file containing the website titles SEPARATE each title you wish to look for by a line break(VbCrLF) and then scan through the text file line by line and check for each title individually. For example(I'm just modifying your code in the reply window as I don't have VS open at the moment):

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click 
        For Each proc As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("iexplore") 'calls internet explorer process 
 
            Dim intex As String = proc.MainWindowTitle.ToLower 'changes MainWindowTitle text to lower case 
            
            Dim fileContents() As String 
 
            fileContents = Split(My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("C:\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\WindowsApplication1\WindowsApplication1\textfile1.txt"), VbCrLf) 'reads text file 
 
 
            For i As Integer = 0 To UBound(fileContents)
            If intex.ToLower.Contains(fileContents(i).ToLower) Then 
                MsgBox("Found Window!") : Exit Sub
 
            Else : MsgBox("Could not find window") 
            End If 
             Next
        Next 
 
    End Sub

[m_s_ifland]

BrendanDavis,
Thank you so much for your help, that works great. I was also talking with some other folks and they had me doing a "streamread". the only problem was this program was running on a timer every second. It wouldn't let me make any changes to the textfile because it was being used by another process(my program). This configuration allows me to add or take away from the textfile database. Thank you so much.