Question

Im looking at creating an application in VB.NET and im having some issues sorting a file on new line.

Basically on the new line, i wanna capture the data in that line, and store it in an array for later use.

Can anyone help me with this? It’d be greatly appreciated 🙂

Example in PHP:

$data = explode("\n", $a);

Answer 1

If i understand your question correctly, use this to read a file and load line by line into an array.

 Dim myArray() = New String() {} 'Corrected array, instantiated. or use myArray(-1)
 Dim x as Integer = 0

Using reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader("file.txt")
    holdData(x) = reader.ReadLine 'Reads line by Line and stores in array.
         x += 1 'Increase array index by 1 before moving to next line
End Using

EDIT: Another method, one that i was not aware of and i find it very interesting is:

Dim path As String = "data.txt"
Dim holdData() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines(path)

This is two lines of code and does the same as my original response.
Very efficient, all you would need to do from here is use the holdData() Array to read the lines of text to a textbox, label, listbox or w/e you wish to do with it 🙂