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dotnet academic : Reading in .csv files

Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]
8/25/2003 8:22:13 AM

Nick,
The closest thing to StringTokenizer in .NET is String.Split.

There are actually three Split functions in VB.NET:

Use Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Split if you need to split a string based
on a specific word (string). It is the Split function from VB6.

Use System.String.Split if you need to split a string based on a collection
of specific characters. Each individual character is its own delimiter.

Alternatively use System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegEx.Split to split based
on matching patterns.

Hope this helps
Jay

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Nick Hoare
8/25/2003 9:40:41 AM

Hi, i am new to VB.Net and really enjoying the trip so far =)

However I have this problem:
I was wondering if anyone is familiar with how to go about reading in an
Excel ".csv" file? I had a search on the internet and found some VB6 code
examples, but i don't think VB6 code is the same as VB.Net is it?

I basically need to read the file in, storing the data (which is arranged in
columns) into a 2Dimensional array.
From there i want to write that data to a database table (most likely
Access) for permanent storage. Any future oeprations on the data (such as
search, edit) will reference the database table i wrote to.

I am familiar with using things like a StringTokenizer in Java, loops and
reading file in, but what do we have available in VB.Net? And should i take
note of the VB6 examples i found or start from scratch?

Any help or reference links is greatly appreciated!

Regards
Nick Hoare

Andrew Hull
9/4/2003 2:17:30 AM

Hi Nick,

Can you save the data in the excel file as XML, if you can you can read it
directly into a data adapter using the ReadXML function.

Cheers
Andrew
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