readline

[James]

i've opened a text file, say config.ini and it contains 3 lines

config.ini
' this is a test file
mypath=c:\abc
mybatch=c:\batch\runme.bat

1. How do i use readline method to ignore anything that has 'comments ?

2. What is the best way to read those those variables from mypath and
mybatch ? I can use a do loop, how do i pass c:\abc and c:\batch\runme.bat
into different variables as i execute the programs ?

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=6

Ken

 

[Rykie]

I assume you have something like this:

Dim line as String

while not line is nothing
line = sr.readline()
if line.StartsWith("'") then
'ignore line
else
'do whatever
end if

end while

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

i've opened a text file, say config.ini and it contains 3 lines

config.ini
' this is a test file
mypath=c:\abc
mybatch=c:\batch\runme.bat

1. How do i use readline method to ignore anything that has 'comments ?

If you use 'StreamReader' you can read each line of the file and analyze the
text:

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

For simple string manipulation take a look at the 'String' class' members
and the methods in the 'Strings' module.