Question

I have a rather large list of data that contains 5 properties per element. The elements are separated by a ‘;’. I want to read the elements into an array in VBScript. Seems simple enough to search for this on the big G but all clear examples assume you want to read line by line and then split the contents on a line on a ‘;’ character. I do not care how many lines there are until the ‘;’ I just want all the info (in this case 5 property fields) for each element to be in one array element.

Source file looks like this:

 element1 property1 = blah element1 property2 = blah element1 property3 = blah element1 property4 = blah element1 property5 = blah ;element2 property1 = blah element2 property2 = blah element2 property3 = blah element2 property4 = blah element2 property5 = blah ;element3 property1 = blah element3 property2 = blah element3 property3 = blah element3 property4 = blah element3 property5 = blah 

What I want to have happen is that my VBScript array(0) be

'element1 property1 = blah element1 property2 = blah element1 property3 = blah element1 property4 = blah element1 property5 = blah'

Any ideas on how to do this. I have made several attempts at the SPLIT function using stuff like

array = Split(objTextFile.Readline , ';') 

But to no avail.

Answer 1

array = Split(objTextFile.ReadAll(), ';')