read in only first x bytes of text file

[Josh Golden]

I have a text file of a database dump that is over 1 GB in size. I would
like to read just the first x number of rows, I don't care if its 10 or 50
or 100 rows, I just want to see some data to understand the structure,
column delimiters, etc.

can i do this with code?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I have a text file of a database dump that is over 1 GB in size. I would
like to read just the first x number of rows, I don't care if its 10 or 50
or 100 rows, I just want to see some data to understand the structure,
column delimiters, etc.

Take a look at the 'System.IO.StreamReader' class and/or
'System.IO.BinaryReader'.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Josh,

In addition to Herfried and than just in a for index loop (all answers are
normaly with a do while or a do until about the streamreaders).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../html/frlrfSystemIOStreamReaderClassTopic.asp

I hope this helps?


Cor