Reading Text File & Displaying In A Listview

[JThunder]

Hi, I am having some trouble displaying text in a list view control. I have several columns in my list view,
and I am not sure how to read each line from a text file and 'place' it in the column.

Public Class Form1


    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        OpenFileDialog_ResourceFile.InitialDirectory = ("C:\users\name\documents\studentProjects")
    End Sub
    Private Sub Update_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSearch.Click

        lisvProjects.BeginUpdate()
        Dim reader As New System.IO.StreamReader(OpenFileDialog_ResourceFile.FileName)
        Dim lines As String = reader.ReadToEnd
        For Each line As String In lines
            lisvProjects.Items.Add(line)
        Next
        reader.Close()

        ' Keep reading a line until we hit the end of the file
        Do While Not reader.EndOfStream
            ' Read a line and add to lisvProjects
            lisvProjects.Items.Add(reader.ReadLine())
        Loop

        reader.Close()





    End Sub


    Private Sub btnSelectFile_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSelectFile.Click
        lisvProjects.Items.Clear()
        If OpenFileDialog_ResourceFile.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
            txtProjectMainFile.Text = OpenFileDialog_ResourceFile.FileName
        Else
            Exit Sub
        End If
    End Sub
End Class

I know my code is a bit rough, but I am only a beginner. Thanks in advance!

[dunfiddlin]

Give us an example line from the file and an indication of how you want to divide it and we'll see what we can do.

[JThunder]

As this program is just a practice for myself, the line from the text could be anything really. I have three different lines though:

TriviaGame
FastTimes
LaterWeaken

I want to divide it by line. For example, I want one row in the column to contain "TriviaGame" and the row directly below to
contain "FastTimes" and so on.

[dunfiddlin]

OpenFileDialog_ResourceFile.InitialDirectory = ("C:\users\name\documents\studentProjects")
        OpenFileDialog_ResourceFile.ShowDialog()
        For Each ln In IO.File.ReadLines(OpenFileDialog_ResourceFile.FileName)
            lsvProjects.Items.Add(ln)
        Next

[JThunder]

Thank you! Your method works much better than the streamreader I was trying to use. Would you mind explaining why streamreader didn't work in this case?

[dunfiddlin]

Dim reader As New System.IO.StreamReader(OpenFileDialog_ResourceFile.FileName)
        Dim lines As String = reader.ReadToEnd ' this reads the whole file as a single string
        For Each line As String In lines ' so this will give you each character in the string in turn
            lisvProjects.Items.Add(line)
        Next
        reader.Close()
 
        ' Keep reading a line until we hit the end of the file
        Do While Not reader.EndOfStream ' you've already read the entire file and closed the stream by this point
            ' Read a line and add to lisvProjects
            lisvProjects.Items.Add(reader.ReadLine()) ' so this won't read anything because it's never executed
        Loop
 
        reader.Close()