[2005] Parsing a textfile by Delimiters of Capital Words.

[stimbo]

I'm not sure I understood all that so this is probably not right. I simply went by the rule that: IF the first word of the current sentence is totally in capital letters, then that entire sentence would be wanted for the final collection. So from the list you posted at the end, this would be in a collection you could output:

DOBERMAN A BIG handsome
ENGLISH Bulldog pups for sale
ENGLISH Bulldog pups, vet 4,

Place a listbox on the form and place this code in a button click event or something.

Dim finalWords As New List(Of String)
 
        Using SR As New IO.StreamReader("star.txt")
            Dim tempStr As String = Nothing
            Dim temp() As String
            Dim isUpp As Boolean 
 
            Do While SR.Peek <> -1
                tempStr = SR.ReadLine.Trim
                temp = Nothing
                temp = tempStr.Split(" "c)
 
                isUpp = True
 
                For Each ch As Char In temp(0).Trim
                    If Not Char.IsUpper(ch) Then
                        isUpp = False
                    End If
                Next
 
                If isUpp = True Then
                    finalWords.Add(tempStr)
                End If
            Loop
        End Using
 
Me.ListBox1.Items.AddRange(finalWords.ToArray)