I am new to VB.Net 2008. I have a task to resolve, it is regading extracting characters from a long string to the console, the extracted text shall be reformatted and saved into a CSV file. The string comes out of a database.
It looks something like: UNH+RAM6957+ORDERS:D:96A:UN:EGC103'BGM+38G::ZEW+REQEST6957+9'DTM+Z05:0:805'DTM+137:20100930154
The values are seperated by '.
I can query the database and display the string on the console, but now I need to extract the
Keyword 'ORDERS' for example, and lets say it's following 5 Characters. So the output should look like: ORDERS:D:96A then I need to extract the keyword 'BGM' and its following five characters so the output should look like: BGM+38G:
After extracting all the keywords, the result should be comma seperated and look like:
ORDERS:D:96A,BGM+38G: it should be saved into a CSV file automatically.
I tried already:
'Lookup for containing KeyWords
Dim FoundPosition1 = p_EDI.Contains("ORDERS")
Console.WriteLine(FoundPosition1)
Which gives the starting position of the Keyword.
I tried to trim the whole thing around the keyword "DTM". The EDI variable holds the entire string from the Database:
Dim FoundPosition2 = EDI
FoundPosition2 = Trim(Mid(EDI, InStr(EDI, "DTM")))
Console.WriteLine(FoundPosition2)
Can someone help please?
Thank you in advance!
To illustrate the steps involved:
' Find the position where ORDERS is in the string.'
Dim foundPosition = EDI.IndexOf("ORDERS")
' Start at that position and extract ORDERS + 5 characters = 11 characters in total.'
Dim ordersData = EDI.SubString(foundPosition, 11)
' Find the position where BGM is in the string.'
Dim foundPosition2 = EDI.IndexOf("BGM")
' Start at that position and extract BGM + 5 characters = 8 characters in total.'
Dim bgmData = EDI.SubString(foundPosition2, 8)
' Construct the CVS data.'
Dim cvsData = ordersData & "," & bgmData
I don't have my IDE here, but something like this will work:
dim EDI as string = "UNH+RAM6957+ORDERS:D:96A:UN:EGC103'BGM+38G::ZEW+REQEST6957+9'DTM+Z05:0:805'DTM+137:20100930154"
dim result as string = KeywordPlus(EDI, "ORDER", 5) + "," _
+ KeywordPlus(EDI, "BGM", 5)
function KeywordPlus(s as string, keyword as string, length as integer) as string
dim index as integer = s.IndexOf(keyword)
if index = -1 then return ""
return s.substring(index, keyword.length + length)
end function
for the interrested people among us, I have put the code together, and created
a CSV file out of it. Maybe it can be helpful to others...
If EDI.Contains("LOC") Then
Dim foundPosition1 = EDI.IndexOf("LOC")
' Start at that position and extract ORDERS + 5 characters = 11 characters in total.'
Dim locData = EDI.Substring(foundPosition1, 11)
'Console.WriteLine(locData)
Dim FoundPosition2 = EDI.IndexOf("QTY")
Dim qtyData = EDI.Substring(FoundPosition2, 11)
'Console.WriteLine(qtyData)
' Construct the CSV data.
Dim csvData = locData & "," & qtyData
'Console.WriteLine(csvData)
' Creating the CSV File.
Dim csvFile As String = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "\Test.csv"
Dim outFile As IO.StreamWriter = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter(csvFile, True)
outFile.WriteLine(csvData)
outFile.Close()
Console.WriteLine(My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(csvFile))
End IF
Have fun!
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I'm looking to read lines from a text file that start with certain characters and stop when the line starts with other characters. So in my example I would like to start reading at line AB and stop at line EF however not all lines will contain the CD line. There will always be a AB line and EF line, however the number of lines in between is unknown.
Here is an example of the lines in a text file I would be reading. You can see that this will create two rows in the DataGridView however the first row is missing the CD line and should be blank.
AB-id1
EF-address1
AB-id2
CD-name1
EF-address2
Here is the code I have so far:
Dim lines() As String = File.ReadAllLines(textfile)
For i As Integer = 0 To lines.Length - 1
If lines(i).StartsWith("AB") Then
Dim nextLines As String() = lines.Skip(i + 1).ToArray
Dim info As String = nextLines.FirstOrDefault(Function(Line) Line.StartsWith("CD"))
Dim name As String = "Yes"
Dim info2 As String = nextLines.FirstOrDefault(Function(Line) Line.StartsWith("EF"))
Dim address As String = "Yes"
End If
DataGridView.Rows.Add(name,address)
Next
Now the output I currently get is:
|Yes|Yes|
|Yes|Yes|
And I should be getting:
||Yes|
|Yes|Yes|
It looks like it's reading too far down the text file and I need it to stop reading at EF. I've tried Do while and Do Until with no success. Any suggestions?
You could use the Array.FindIndex function to get the index of the next line starting with your prefix. This way you don't have to skip lines and create a new array each time.
Try this out instead:
Dim lines() As String = File.ReadAllLines(textFile)
For i As Integer = 0 To lines.Length - 1
If lines(i).StartsWith("AB") Then
Dim addressIndex As Integer = Array.FindIndex(lines, i + 1, Function(Line) Line.StartsWith("EF"))
Dim address As String = If(addressIndex <> -1, lines(addressIndex).Substring(3), "") ' Get everything past the "-"
Dim name As String = ""
If addressIndex <> -1 Then
Dim nameIndex As Integer = Array.FindIndex(lines, i + 1, addressIndex - i, Function(line) line.StartsWith("CD"))
If nameIndex <> -1 Then
name = lines(nameIndex).Substring(3) ' Get everything past the "-"
End If
End If
DataGridView.Rows.Add(name, address)
End If
Next
I have a String file with 8 items (separated by commas) in each row, e.g., CA,23456,aName,aType,anotherName,aWord,secondword,number. I want to create a new string of items consisting of the 2nd item (an Integer) of each row of the original file. I know there are many ways to do this but someone out there knows how to do it with very few lines of code, which is what I am looking for. I prefer not to use a parser.
The way to show what I have tried is to look at the code below.
Dim sn2 As String = ""
Dim sn2S As String = ""
Using readFile As New StreamReader(newFile1)
Do While readFile.Peek() <> -1
sn2S = readFile.ReadLine(1)
sn2 = sn2 & sn2S & ","
Loop
End Using
The code returns the second character of each row not the second item. What I hope to get is a string that looks like: 123,1345,4325,3321,3456,3211 etc. Where each number is the second item in each row of the original file.
You could split it up by cells
Dim row As String = "CA,23456,aName,aType,anotherName,aWord,secondword,number"
Dim cells() As String = row.Split(",")
Dim cellValue As String = cells(1)
But in your case, I would just do a search and Substring by the index of the delimiter.
Dim startPosition As Integer = row.IndexOf(",") + 1
Dim endPosition As Integer = row.IndexOf(",", startPosition)
Dim cellValue As String = row.Substring(startPosition, endPosition - startPosition)
If you have the whole file in memory, there could be some regex that could do the job with one pass.
As for this line
sn2 = sn2 & sn2S & ","
You might want to check at doing a join or using stringbuilder.
You could try
Dim sn2 As String = ""
Dim sn2S(7) As String = ""
Using readFile As New StreamReader(newFile1)
Do While readFile.Peek() <> -1
Array.Clear(sn25,0,sn25.Length)
sn2S = readFile.ReadLine(1).Split(",")
sn2 = sn2 & sn2S(1) & ","
Loop
End Using
In one line
Dim sn2 = String.Join(",", File.ReadAllLines(newFile1).Select(Function(s) s.Split(","c)(1)))
From the inside-out:
File.ReadAllLines(newFile1) splits the file into lines and results in a string array holding those lines, which is fed into...
...Select(Function(s) s.Split(","c)(1)) which operates on each line by splitting the line by comma s.Split(","c) and then indexing the resulting array (1) to return the second (zero-based) element. This is fed into...
String.Join(",", ... ) which takes those second elements and joins then together with comma.
I'm trying to find a way to trim strings before a substring, in a way that only the left of the string is returned.
Before:
[REMOVE] = 1 (Line0)
G77 H9002 (Line1)
[ZAXIS] = 25 (Line2)
After:
[REMOVE] = 1
G77 H9002
[ZAXIS] = 25
I want to trim the strings before the "(line" substring (removing all characters remaining on the right as well).
In VBA this was easily achievable but in VB .Net its not so straightforward.
Could you please direct me to a possible solution?
Thanks
Dim strs = File.ReadLines("c:\\SomeFile.txt") 'Read the file
Using sw = File.CreateText("c:\Target") 'File to save to
For Each str In strs
Dim i = str.LastIndexOf("(Line") 'Find the index to cut
Dim newStr = str.Substring(0, i) 'Cut the line at index
sw.WriteLine(newStr) 'Write new string to new file.
Next
End Using
I've been working on this assignment for class but ran into an issue when creating a string from three other strings. It creates a invoice number based on the first letter in the first and last name and the last 3 numbers of the zip code.
Dim split As String() = txtName.Text.Split(", ")
Dim last As String = split(0)
Dim first As String = split(1)
Dim invFirst = first.Substring(0, 1)
Dim invLast = last.Substring(0, 1)
Dim invZip = cityState.Substring(cityState.Length - 3)
Dim invNumber = invFirst + invLast + invZip
lstInvoice.Items.Add("Invoice Number: " + invNumber)
Instead of printing out AB123 it will print out just B123. I have tried using + and & and even tired converting all components to a string just to be sure it wasn't trying to treat the values as numbers or something.
Am I missing something like flushing the stream or casting them differently?
Split() returns an array. https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tabh47cf(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=vb#code-snippet-1
So you need to trim the strings. And then it will work.
https://dotnetfiddle.net/U5gvh5
Dim split As String() = txtName.Split(",")
Dim last As String = split(0).Trim()
Dim first As String = split(1).Trim()
I'm looking to parse this text file into strings to insert them into a database.
Source Text File gets read as the following string:
Line of unwanted text
Another line of unwanted data
Timestamp: 1/1/10 12:00 PM
ID: 1
Details: All data processed. Length will vary.
I'd like to just read Timestamp, ID and Details and place them into separate strings to insert them into a data table. What is the best method of capturing everything after the : and to the end of the line?
Dim Details as String = TextFile.Substring(Message.IndexOf("Details:"), X)
If you have to use a String as input, you can use String.Split to break it up into lines, and process each line. String.Substring can be used to extract the rest of the line - I've just hardcoded the starting positions below.
Dim timestamp As String = Nothing
Dim id As String = Nothing
Dim details As String = Nothing
For Each line In input.Split({vbCrLf, vbCr, vbLf}, StringSplitOptions.None)
If line.StartsWith("timestamp:", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) Then
timestamp = line.Substring(10).Trim()
ElseIf line.StartsWith("id:", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) Then
id = line.Substring(3).Trim()
ElseIf line.StartsWith("details:", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) Then
details = line.Substring(8).Trim()
End If
Next
If you can change how you read the data, then the loop could just be:
For each line In File.ReadLines("your\file\name.txt")
...
Next
Assuming your files are flawless... One way to do it :
Imports System.IO
Dim AllLines() As String = File.ReadAllLines(FilePath)
Dim DatasIndex As Int32 = -1
For i As Int32 = 0 To AllLines.Length - 1
If AllLines(i).StartsWith("T") OrElse AllLines(i).StartsWith("t") Then
If AllLines(i).ToUpper().StartsWith("TIMESTAMP: ") Then
DatasIndex = i
Exit For
End If
End If
Next
If DatasIndex > -1 Then
' Dim ReadDate As Date = Date.Parse(AllLines(DatasIndex).Substring(11))
' Dim ReadID As Int32 = Integer.Parse(AllLines(DatasIndex + 1).Substring(4))
Dim ReadDate As String = AllLines(DatasIndex).Substring(11)
Dim ReadID As String = AllLines(DatasIndex + 1).Substring(4)
Dim ReadDetails As String = AllLines(DatasIndex + 2).Substring(9)
' send to database
End If
You didn't tell if Timestamp: , ID: and Details: Strings are always in the same order and has a trailing space after each property name.