Reading and Writing Text Files

[bbepristis]

Hey all I have this code that reads from one text file writes to
another unless im on a certian line then it writes the new data however
it only seems to do about 40 lines then quits and I cant figure out why
any help would be much apprechiated

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Dim line_num As Integer
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Dim filename2 As String
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Dim csv_text As String
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csv_text = companytxt.Text & "," & Nametxt.Text & "," &
addrtxt.Text & "," & citytxt.Text & "," & statetxt.Text & "," &
ziptxt.Text & "," & countrytxt.Text & "," & phonetxt.Text & "," &
faxtxt.Text & "," & celltxt.Text & "," & titletxt.Text & "," &
assistanttxt.Text & "," & urltxt.Text & "," & altcontacttxt.Text & ","
& altphonetxt.Text & "," & altaddrtxt.Text & "," & altcitytxt.Text &
"," & altstatetxt.Text & "," & altziptxt.Text & "," & territorytxt.Text
& "," & mech1serialnum.Text & "," & mech1vacpump.Text & "," &
mech1spindle.Text & "," & mech1vacpumpserialnum.Text & "," &
mech1filterpartnum.Text & "," & mech2serialnum.Text & "," &
mech2vacpump.Text & "," & mech2spindle.Text & "," &
mech2vacpumpserialnum.Text & "," & mech2filterpartnum.Text & "," &
mech3serialnum.Text & "," & mech3vacpump.Text & "," & mech3spindle.Text
& "," & mech3vacpumpserialnum.Text & "," & mech3filterpartnum.Text &
"," & mech4serialnum.Text & "," & mech4vacpump.Text & "," &
mech4spindle.Text & "," & mech4vacpumpserialnum.Text & "," &
mech4filterpartnum.Text & "," & user1txt.Text & "," & user2txt.Text &
"," & user3txt.Text & "," & user4txt.Text & "," & user5txt.Text & "," &
user6txt.Text & "," & user7txt.Text & "," & user8txt.Text & "," &
user9txt.Text & "," & user10txt.Text & "," & user11txt.Text & "," &
user12txt.Text & "," & user13txt.Text & "," & user14txt.Text & "," &
user15txt.Text
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filename2 = "C:\Documents and Settings\Brian Bepristis\My
Documents\Visual Studio Projects\Multicamtemp.csv"
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Dim filename As String
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filename = "C:\Documents and Settings\Brian Bepristis\My
Documents\Visual Studio Projects\Multicamtemp2.csv"
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' Create an empty string array to return to caller.
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Dim lines() As String = {}
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' Check to see if the file exists.
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If File.Exists(filename) Then
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' Open a stream reader to get the text from the file.
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Dim sr As New StreamReader(filename)
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' Read all the file text.
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Dim fileText As String = sr.ReadToEnd()
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' Close the stream reader
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sr.Close()
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' Split the text into a string array delimited by
Carriage Return/Line Feed.
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lines = Split(fileText, vbCrLf)
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' Return
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Dim fs As New FileStream(filename2, FileMode.Create)
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Dim sw As New StreamWriter(fs)
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Dim foundBlank As Boolean
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For Each line As String In lines
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If line.Length > 0 Then
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line_num += 1
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If line_num = currecord Then
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sw.WriteLine(csv_text)
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' Reset blank line flag
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foundBlank = False
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Else
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sw.WriteLine(line)
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' Reset blank line flag
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foundBlank = False
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End If
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Else
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If Not foundBlank Then
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' Blank line: write first one
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sw.WriteLine(line)
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' Set flag to indicate that blank line
was found
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foundBlank = True
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End If
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End If
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Next
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sw.Close()
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fs.Close()
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End If
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If System.IO.File.Exists(filename2) = True Then
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If System.IO.File.Exists(filename) = True Then
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System.IO.File.Delete(filename)
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End If
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System.IO.File.Copy(filename2, filename)
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End If

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Are you sure you don't have included a chrw(0) value.

After that you cannot see anything anymore.

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[bbepristis]

not sure im new to vb so Im not sure what you mean

 

[bbepristis]

Nevermind figured it out there was some funky charicters in the csv
file stoping it..

Chars were --- NSB@ VL? ---