reading specific text in a text file.

[aarviii]

how can i read a specific text from a text file back to a textbox?

so here are the text

[e-mail], TAGUIG, 9460593, ASRock, 2.4 GHz, Dual, Core, HDD, 160 GB,5, 200, 2 GB, 2,512 MB, YES

and i just want get the text
TAGUIG and HDD

[tinstaafl]

one way is to read the file into memory, then use the Split Method to split the line up at each comma. From there you can add specific text to the textbox.

[aarviii]

can you please give the codes?

[Reverend Jim]

You can read the entire file into a string array by

Dim text() As String = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(filename)

If the file contains many lines and you only want one (assuming you can uniquely identify a line by, for example, the email address) you can do

Dim email As String = "[e-mail]"
Dim text() As String = Filter(System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(filename,email))

Assuming a match was found, your line would be text(0). You can split it by

Dim fields() As String = text(0).Split(",")

Then the fields you want would be

Trim(fields(1))
Trim(fields(8))

[aarviii]

it tried the code but after i change the filename the email string gets invalid

[aarviii]

it says whenever i point the cursor on the email string "Value of type 'String' cannot be converted to 'System.Text.Encoding'" what can i do to convert that string?

[Reverend Jim]

Sorry. My mistake. The line should have been

Dim text() As String = Filter(System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(filename),email)