Hello Friends,
I want to calculate the instance of * in the text file....
but I am not able to do it....
can anyone tell me which file funtion to use for it...
I first tried to read the file --- its just one line file
then see if the character '*' exists in the file...
I am done till here...i dont to know to proceed further....
Jump to PostTry do use StreamReader class to read the file line by line, and count repetitions of char:
Dim counter As Integer = 0 Using sr As New StreamReader("filePath") Dim line As String Dim data As String() = Nothing While (InlineAssignHelper(line, sr.ReadLine())) IsNot Nothing If line.Contains("*"C) Then data …
i cant get you pooja , what do you mean by instance , well if you just want to know is * is in text file ? please check this attachment.
Regards
i cant get you pooja , what do you mean by instance , well if you just want to know is * is in text file ? please check this attachment.
Regards
Not able to open the file...i wanted to know how many times * exists in the file .... nyways I got the answer....
Dim abc As String = "abc*def*sjfsd*xdvx*"
Dim pattern As String = "\*"
Dim expr As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(pattern)
Dim m As System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection
m = expr.Matches(abc)
Debug.Print("m count: " + m.Count.ToString)
Try do use StreamReader class to read the file line by line, and count repetitions of char:
Dim counter As Integer = 0
Using sr As New StreamReader("filePath")
Dim line As String
Dim data As String() = Nothing
While (InlineAssignHelper(line, sr.ReadLine())) IsNot Nothing
If line.Contains("*"C) Then
data = line.Split(New Char() {"*"C}, StringSplitOptions.None)
counter += data.Length - 1
End If
End While
End Using
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