Readline doesn't read line feeds

[jonnyknowsbest]

I am trying to read in a textfile to a multiline text box, but when i run the code, it puts everything on to a single line in the textbox rather than on separate lines, as it appears in the text file.

Any ideas?

 

[chiph]

Linefeed characters are a line-breaker.

A line is defined as a sequence of characters followed by a carriage return (0x000d), a line feed (0x000a), Environment.NewLine, or the end of stream marker.

So when you read from your file the linefeed character gets stripped out.

Chip H.


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[huel]

Hi,

You could try something along the lines of

Dim reader as new StreamReader(fileName)
TextBox1.Text = reader.ReadToEnd
reader.Close

This will read in the entire text file, line feeds included. You'll need to get away from the ReadLine function at any rate. There are a couple of ways to do so.

Jay

 

[jonnyknowsbest]

That worked Jay

Many thanks