2008 Array Question

[Logoman]

Hello all, I am new to the forums and I have a question. I am new to VB and am working on a project that is taking information from a .dat file and placing it into an array. Now the .dat file looks kinda like so:

100101011010010
101010101010101someones name
001110001110001someoneelses name
etc..

I am trying to take the first line, which is the key to a test and verify the results with following lines and the persons name. Then display how many they got correct and how many they got wrong with the persons name. So, my question is can I read the element of the array and only read the numbers and then print out the name some other time? Should I just fill the array with one character at time and go from there? Is there some trick to making this array or a command that I can utilize to make this easier than it seems?

I appreciate the help, thanks all:

-Logoman

[.paul.]

you could use this:

Dim lines() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines("yourfile.dat")
Dim names(lines.GetUpperBound(0), 1) As String
Dim answers As String = lines(0)
For x As Integer = 1 To lines.GetUpperBound(0)
      Dim correct As Integer = 0
      names(x, 0) = lines(x).Substring(answers.Length)
      For z As Integer = 0 To answers.Length - 1
           If lines(x).Substring(z, 1) = answers.Substring(z, 1) Then
              correct += 1
           End If
      Next
      names(x, 1) = CStr(correct)
Next

[Logoman]

I am going to be using a streamreader to read the file in, are there any tricks to that?

[.paul.]

search the forum for streamreader

[dbasnett]

You could convert the key and answers to bitarray and XOR the key and each answer, ending up with incorrect responses.