reading text files

[Leonard Wright]

I'm developing a lottery program and want read a text file that has
Draw date
Draw number
six lottery numbers
all in comma delimited text file
I want the user to select a draw number
to show all the stats from that draw number

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[Morten Wennevik]

Hello nameless,

Good for you, I suspect you were meaning to ask something, but unless you do, we can't help you.

 

[Leonard Wright]

What i need to no is the coding to display the contents of text
delimited text file into text boxes

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Well, I'm not away of any easy way to read comma delimited text files.

You can read textfiles by using

FileStream fs = File.OpenRead("filename.txt");
string data = fs.ReadToEnd();
fs.Close();

You could split the data long \r\n or parse the filestream through a StreamReader and use ReadLine, then split the resulting line by the comma. However, things like "data","da,ta","data" would not give the expected result.

This page may provide some ideas.

http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/.NET/net_data/sortinganditerating/article.php/c6387/