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Loading A Text File into a Array into a Listbox

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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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  1.         Dim seat(15, 6) As Double

  2.         Dim sr As IO.StreamReader = IO.File.OpenText("plane.txt")

  3.         For row As Integer = 0 To 6

  4.             For col As Integer = 0 To 15

  5.                 seat(row, col) = CDbl(sr.ReadLine)

  6.             Next

  7.         Next

  8.         listSeat.Items.Clear()

  9.         listSeat.Items.Add("ABC DEF")

  10.         Do While sr.Peek <> -1

  11.             listSeat.Items.Add(sr.ReadLine)

  12.         Loop

  13.         sr.Close()

  14.     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
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Re: Loading A Text File into a Array into a Listbox

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May 8th, 2008
Hi,

Not sure, try this, change your code:

listSeat.Items.Add(sr.ReadLine( ))

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Re: Loading A Text File into a Array into a Listbox

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No, that didn't work. What also I tried to do is reverse the do while statement and the for statement but I got an out of bounds exception.
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Re: Loading A Text File into a Array into a Listbox

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May 9th, 2008
Hi,

Try to declare reader oject like this :

Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader("C:\plane.txt")

Give complete path of the file..

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No I shouldn't have to give the complete path since the txt file is already where it is supposed to be in my project file, it will load just fine, but from what I see the problem is the way the code is written, and I have really no idea how to fix it.
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Re: Loading A Text File into a Array into a Listbox

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Sorry for double posting but I think I fixed the code to make it better, and it works to an extent.

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Private Sub Chart_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim sr As IO.StreamReader = IO.File.OpenText("plane.txt")
        For row As Integer = 0 To 15
            For col As Integer = 0 To 6
                seat(row, col) = CStr(sr.ReadLine)
            Next
        Next
        listSeat.Items.Add("ABC DEF")
        'Do While sr.Peek <> -1
        ''''listSeat.Items.Add(seat(row, col))
        sr.Close()
    End Sub

I don't get any out of bounds errors or null exception errors, but it won't output the text file into the list box for some reason
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Re: Loading A Text File into a Array into a Listbox

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May 12th, 2008
Hi,

While populating the "Seat", populate the Listbox as well...

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  1. Private Sub Chart_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
  2.   Dim sr As IO.StreamReader = IO.File.OpenText("plane.txt")
  3.   listSeat.Items.Add("ABC DEF")
  4. For row As Integer = 0 To 15
  5.  For col As Integer = 0 To 6
  6.   seat(row, col) = CStr(sr.ReadLine)
  7.   listSeat.Items.Add(seat(row, col))
  8.  Next
  9. Next
  10. sr.Close()
  11. End Sub

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