Loading A Text File into a Array into a Listbox

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Loading A Text File into a Array into a Listbox

May 8th, 2008

I am usually not keen for asking for help in these kind of situations but I am really stumped when it comes to this, all I really need is a good step in the right direction and I should be (hopefully) fine.

I am currently writing an airplane seating program for my VB class. What I am trying to do is load a text file into an array and then out put it into the list box.

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        Dim seat(15, 6) As Double
        Dim sr As IO.StreamReader = IO.File.OpenText("plane.txt")
        For row As Integer = 0 To 6
            For col As Integer = 0 To 15
                seat(row, col) = CDbl(sr.ReadLine)
            Next
        Next
        listSeat.Items.Clear()
        listSeat.Items.Add("ABC DEF")
        Do While sr.Peek <> -1
            listSeat.Items.Add(sr.ReadLine)
        Loop
        sr.Close()
    End Sub

The setup for the txt file is like this:

... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...
... ...

When I execute the program I get a InvalidCastException which said {"Conversion from string "V.. ..." to type 'Double' is not valid."}

The "V.. ...." is from the txt file, from this error from what I am trying to comprehend is that its trying to convert the whole line to double, but I am not sure on how to go about going fixing this small problem, because If i can figure this out then I can figure out the rest of my problem.

Thanks in advanced