Hi,

I am trying to write a simple console application using
vb .net 2002.

I want to open a text file which was generated using
hyperteminal and it contains lines of text with some
numerical data.

Then I need to manipulate the strings (line by line) to
extract the numerical data.

My question is:

How can I open this file? I tried the open command but the
editor tells me it is part of the windows.visualbasic
namespace.

When I put this in the reference list and put the line
IMPORTS WINDOWS.VISUALBASIC in my code it still does not
recognize the open command. Also the imports command is
not valid.

What do I do wrong? Is this the way to go or do I need
some other way to open the file to get my data?

Thanks for your help,

Robert

Uses System.IO classes

Dim oFile As New System.IO.StreamReader("c:\text.txt")
      Dim s As String
      Do
         s = oFile.ReadLine()
         Console.WriteLine(s)
      Loop Until s Is Nothing
   End Sub

HTH

--
Corrado Cavalli [Microsoft .NET MVP]
UGIdotNET - http://www.ugidotnet.org

I haven't heard of WINDOWS.VISUALBASIC. There's only Microsoft.VisualBasic,
but it's already part of the list of imported names for new projects, so you
don't have to add it.

Have a look at:
ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/vbcn7/html/vbconFolderFileProcessing.htm

--
Armin