Editing Text File

[Matt]

I want to delete the first line of a text file but it seems like a waste to
read in the entire file into memory, remove the line, and then write it out
again. Is there a way in VB.NET to delete the first line without reading in
the entire file and recreating it?

 

[Hal Rosser]

Read a line at a time - writing to a different file
then delete the original file
then rename the new file
uses less memory this way - but may be slower because of the reads and
writes
if file is small - read into memory then close, open, then rewrite the file