Your problem is probably encoding related, also you may want to use BinaryReader which is more tolerant of odd-ball data.
On a side note, dropping into a textBox may not work the way you expect. TextBox.Text does not behave the same as a String variable or an array of characters or bytes. TextBox.Text often truncates data when it runs into characters it can't display, Strings etc... don't. It may be that your garbage characters are causing the TextBox.Text property to truncate your data string. i.e. Your code may be fine but you simply can't display it all in a textbox. On Sep 3, 12:23 pm, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I am trying to read a text like file that is padded with some > garbage (or at least it is to me). When I try to read using > StreamReader it does not make it past the first few awkward > characters, can anyone suggest a method to read in this data? Simply > ignoring it is a acceptable solution, as the end result is to filter > this out. > > This is an example of what the input is like, everything before the > 0H## is garbage, but using StreamReader it does not get past them. > > µ á 0H12$HEHDT,224.71,T*1D > É á 0H14$WIMWV,009,R,023,N,A*2B > É á 0H15$VMVLW,301074.5,N,0296833,N*79 > Ý á 0H23$AGHTD,V,3.9,R,R,N,10,10,0.5,10.0,,0.0,,T,A,A,A,224.7*6C > Ý á 0H12$HCHDM,232.90,M*13 > > Here is the implementation of the code. Currently just dumps what is > read into a text box as proof of concept. > > myStream = opnFile.OpenFile() > If (myStream IsNot Nothing) Then > Dim objReader As New > StreamReader(opnFile.FileName) > txtOut.Text = objReader.ReadToEnd > objReader.Close() > 'Read stream > End If > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > Cheers and thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://cm.megasolutions.net/forums/default.aspx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
