reading a text file

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hey all,

is there a quick way to read.all the contents of a text file, search for the
text, and if it finds that text to read the entire line?

thanks,
rodchar

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

is there a quick way to read.all the contents of a text file, search for
the
text, and if it finds that text to read the entire line?

Reading a text file line-by-line or blockwise with a progress indicator
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=readfile&lang=en>

You can use 'InStr' to check if the line read from the file contains a
certain string.