Working with text files
• The ability to open textfile and read contents
is a uselful process in programming.
• Textfile may contain answers to questions,save
some data associate to a program i.e errors.
Open text file
• We need a class object called StreamReader.it reads a
stream of text.its an object found in the class called
system.io.
• To create a stream reader.
• Dim filename=“c:\users\t.txt”
• Dim objReader as New System.io.Streamreader(filename)
• 1st-sets the variable to store the path.
• Streamreader is set to a variable called objreader.
• System is the main object.io is below it and stream reader
is below i.o.the file to read is put between the quotes.
Read File
• You say.textbox1.text=objreader.readtoend
• Create a new Project.
• Add a textbox ad set its property to multiline.
• Add a button and call it open.
• Type
• Dim filename As String = "C:\Documents and Settings\Mobile
Dev\Desktop\flash.txt"
• Dim objreader As New
System.IO.StreamReader(filename)
• TextBox2.Text = objreader.ReadToEnd
• objreader.Close()
Create a file
• If System.IO.File.Exists("c:\testFile.txt") Then
• 'shows message if testFile exist
• MsgBox("File 'testFile' Exist ")
• Else
• 'create the file testFile.txt
• System.IO.File.Create("c:\testFile.txt")
• MsgBox("File 'testFile' created ")
• End If
Writing to file
• Dim filename As String = "c:\testFile.txt"
• If System.IO.File.Exists(filename) = True Then
• Dim objwriter As New
System.IO.StreamWriter(filename)
• objwriter.WriteLine(TextBox2.Text)
• objwriter.Close()
• MessageBox.Show("wrote to file")
• Else
• MessageBox.Show("No such file")
• End If
Append to file
• We add the word true next to the file name on
the streamwriter object
• Dim objWriter As New
System.IO.StreamWriter( FILE_NAME, True )
Copy Files
• Dim filename As String = "c:\testFile.txt"
• Dim filename1 As String =
"c:\testFiless.txt“//new textfile
• If (System.IO.File.Exists(filename) = True) Then
• System.IO.File.Copy(filename, filename1)
• MessageBox.Show("file copied")
• Else
• MessageBox.Show("no file copied")
• End If
Move Files
• Dim filename As String = "c:\testFiless.txt"
• Dim filename1 As String = "c:\testFil.txt"
• If (System.IO.File.Exists(filename) = True)
Then
• System.IO.File.Move(filename, filename1)
• MessageBox.Show("file moved")
• Else
• MessageBox.Show("no file moved")
• End If
Error file
• Dim path As String = "E:\TUTORIALS\Visual Studio\
CdManagement\error.txt"
• If System.IO.File.Exists(path) Then
• Dim objwriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(path)
• objwriter.WriteLine(Date.Now & ex.message)
• objwriter.Close()
• Else
• System.IO.File.Create(path)
• Dim objwriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(path)
• objwriter.WriteLine(Date.Now & ex.message)
• objwriter.Close()
• Standard one pupil asked his brother named
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application that would help him with basic
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