Question

I’m trying to do something quite simple. I need to take a pipe-delimited text file and store the contents of the file in an array.

Answer 1

I haven’t done vb.net for at least a year but I’ll give it a go:

First of all read in all of the file you have

var fileContent = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("myFile.txt")

Then split the file by the pipe character:

var fileSplit = fileContent.Split("|")

fileSplit will be your string array of the file separated by the pipe character.

I haven’t tested this and the syntax is by memory but I’m sure you’ll be able to figure it out 🙂