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Asked: May 30, 20262026-05-30T11:25:27+00:00 2026-05-30T11:25:27+00:00

Say I have a 5 GB file. I want to split it in the

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Say I have a 5 GB file. I want to split it in the following way.

First 100 MB is on the file

The rest go some reserve file

I do not want to use readalllines kind of function because it’s too slow for large files.

I do not want to read the whole file to the memory. I want the program to handle only a medium chunk of data at a time.

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    2026-05-30T11:25:28+00:00Added an answer on May 30, 2026 at 11:25 am

    You may use BinaryReader class and its method to read file in chunks.

    Dim chunk() As Byte
    chunk = br.ReadBytes(1024)
    
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