>Can anyone give me a shove in the right direction on how to open a text
>file, search the text file for a Header of sorts then once the header
>position is found within the file the print data to that file after the
>header in sequential order?

>Text file:

>{Header}
>data1
>data2
>data3

>I know how to open a file for output or input. But am unsure how to use a
>loop to check each line of the file until it finds the match to the header
>name. Then once the header position is found within the file, I do not know
>how to print the data to the file after the Header is found.

>I have tried opening the file for output doing a search, but if the search
>matches, How can I do a Input function while a output function already has
>the file open?

>Thanks for the help!!!

> >Hello All:

> >Can anyone give me a shove in the right direction on how to open a text
> >file, search the text file for a Header of sorts then once the header
> >position is found within the file the print data to that file after the
> >header in sequential order?

> >Text file:

> >{Header}
> >data1
> >data2
> >data3

> >I know how to open a file for output or input. But am unsure how to use a
> >loop to check each line of the file until it finds the match to the
header
> >name. Then once the header position is found within the file, I do not
know
> >how to print the data to the file after the Header is found.

> >I have tried opening the file for output doing a search, but if the
search
> >matches, How can I do a Input function while a output function already
has
> >the file open?

> >Thanks for the help!!!

> If each "record" is the same length, what you have is a random access
> file which you can open using the Random keyword in your Open
> statement.  If the data is of variable length, what you will need to
> do is create a new file and write the data that comes before the
> position in which you want to insert the new data, then write the new
> data, followed by any data that comes after the data you wanted to
> replace in the original file.  Once you have the new file written as
> desired, you can kill the original file and rename the new file with
> the original file name.

> In any case, you can find more info by looking at the "Open" topic in
> your VB help file.

> HTH,
> Bryan
> ____________________________________________________________
> New Vision Software            "When the going gets weird,"
> Bryan Stafford          "the weird turn pro."

> Microsoft MVP-Visual Basic     Fear and Loathing in LasVegas

>Here is an Example of what I want to do.

>in a file called !Blah.txt I will have stored text data.

>[Architecture]
>Office=Chicago
>Path=C:\projects
>Employee=Brian
>[Pluming]
>Office=SanFran
>Path=C:\projects
>Employee=Bill
>[Electrical]
>Office=Denver
>Path=C:\projects
>Employee=George

>I have created a program that will write, put or print data to a file. BUT I
>am wanting to go a step further in the aspect of searching through the text
>file for a particular header, then under that header look for a particular
>subject then retrieve that value that the subject is equal to. As in I want
>the routine to open the text file search for the header of Pluming and find
>the value for the employee which in the above example would be Bill.

>I have written some rough code on this but I do not know where to go from
>here.

>Open filespec For Input Access Read As #File
>    Do While Not EOF(File)
>        Line Input #1, TextLine1
>        If TextLine1 = "[Pluming]" Then
>            WRITE CODE HERE TO APPEND TO THE NEXT LINE AFTER HEADER
>"Pluming"
>    Loop
>Close #File

>I know in the above example the TextLine1 is a integer and I am comparing it
>to a string. This is where I am confused on how to compare the position of
>the word [Pluming] in relation to the end of a file. I think I need to find
>the position of the text in relation from the top of the page down. Like in
>above text file. the word [Pluming] is in a counter = to 5 places from the
>top of the text file. BUT how do you read what is at the intcounter position
>5 of a text file?

>I am sorry of this is confusing, BUT I have seen this application used
>before by programs and like the organization it gives.

>Thank you.

>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:47:01 -0600, "Brian Ranstead"

>> >Hello All:

>> >Can anyone give me a shove in the right direction on how to open a text
>> >file, search the text file for a Header of sorts then once the header
>> >position is found within the file the print data to that file after the
>> >header in sequential order?

>> >Text file:

>> >{Header}
>> >data1
>> >data2
>> >data3

>> >I know how to open a file for output or input. But am unsure how to use a
>> >loop to check each line of the file until it finds the match to the
>header
>> >name. Then once the header position is found within the file, I do not
>know
>> >how to print the data to the file after the Header is found.

>> >I have tried opening the file for output doing a search, but if the
>search
>> >matches, How can I do a Input function while a output function already
>has
>> >the file open?

>> >Thanks for the help!!!

>> If each "record" is the same length, what you have is a random access
>> file which you can open using the Random keyword in your Open
>> statement.  If the data is of variable length, what you will need to
>> do is create a new file and write the data that comes before the
>> position in which you want to insert the new data, then write the new
>> data, followed by any data that comes after the data you wanted to
>> replace in the original file.  Once you have the new file written as
>> desired, you can kill the original file and rename the new file with
>> the original file name.

>> In any case, you can find more info by looking at the "Open" topic in
>> your VB help file.

>> HTH,
>> Bryan
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> New Vision Software            "When the going gets weird,"
>> Bryan Stafford          "the weird turn pro."

>> Microsoft MVP-Visual Basic     Fear and Loathing in LasVegas