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insert two words into a TextFile in a sigle line ;these two words arranged in left alignment each other

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  1 year ago

  by cnu1251

  cnu1251

  , India

  Joined 2 years ago

  Hi Friends,

              enter two words line by line into a text file

  example:   if i pass two words in a line    Hai , Wish

  next line Hello, Wish

  next line True,Equal

  .How these words arranged these words like this

  Hai          Wish

  Hello       Wish

  True        Equal 

  ie

   

   

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  1 year ago

  by jmcilhinney

  John McIlhinney

  Sydney, Australia

  Joined 4 years ago

  You can't insert anything into an existing text file.  You would have to read the contents of the file in and then write it out again with the new text inserted at the appropriate position.

  You might choose to read the entire file in, then insert the text, then write the whole file out.  Alternatively you might choose to read and write a line at a time, writing the extra text at the appropriate point.  If you choose the second option you will not be able to write to the same path.  You'd have to write to a temp location and then overwrite the original file when you were done.
  

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  1 year ago

  by jefftullin

  Jeff Tullin

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 2 years ago

  Sounds like homework to me:

  Enter two words into a text box, seperated by a comma.

  Write these to a text file, seperated by a tab character, or at a fixed spacing.

   

  If so, look at the StreamWriter class for examples of how to write to a text file.

   eg  if item1 and item2 are strings, taken from a text box on your form:

        ' Create an instance of StreamWriter to write text to a file.
          Dim sw As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("TestFile.txt")
          ' Add some text to the file.
          sw.WriteLine(Item1 + "  " + item2)
          sw.Close()
  

   

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  1 year ago

  by cnu1251

  cnu1251

  , India

  Joined 2 years ago

  Mr Gefftullin,

                    Thanks for your replay. My problem is the space between two words.i want to align  the second word in all line are left aligned

                ie:-     hdgfhgfhdgf      djfhgf

                        sdfsdfs             fgsfgfd

                        df                     fdffdff

  i wrote these codes  but the second words are not in a  stright line

   it shoudn't  work  properly

  this is the code :

  Dim file As New System.IO.StreamWriter("c:\test.txt", True)

  Dim ss As String

  Dim i, l As Integer

  l = txtwords.Text.Trim.Length

  For i = l To 10

  ss += vbTab

  Next

  MsgBox(ss.Length + txtwords.Text.Trim.Length)

  file.WriteLine(txtwords.Text.Trim & ss & txtotherwords.Text.Trim)

  file.Close()

    if you get any other idea ?

   

   

   

   

   

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  1 year ago

  by jmcilhinney

  John McIlhinney

  Sydney, Australia

  Joined 4 years ago
  Use the PadRight method to add spaces to the first word in each line to make each the same width.  That way the second word in each line will each start at the same column.  The contents of the file will have to be viewed in a fixed-width font for that to be useful though.  Notepad uses a fixed-width font by default.  A .NET TextBox does not.
  
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  1 year ago

  by cnu1251

  cnu1251

  , India

  Joined 2 years ago

   

                              My  problem is solved, I insert a tab character in between the two words like this

   

  Dim File1 As New System.IO.StreamWriter("C:\test.txt",True)
  File1.WriteLine(Textbox1.Text  & chr(9) & TextBox2.Text)
  File1.Close

  Now all second word are leftaligned at any string length

  if  insert space ("  ") instead of tabcharcter we cannot get such result.

                                   Thanks  Everybody to help me to get right result

                                                    Pratheej
  

   

   

   

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  1 year ago

  by Zorro_ot

  Oliver Tell

  Hamburg, Germany

  Joined 3 years ago

  Your code does work because Textbox1.Text.Length does not exceed a certain value. Please try "abc" as first word and then "0123456789abc" as first word in the next line.

  To overcome this problem, you can insert a number of TABs or CHR(9)s depending on the length of Textbox1.Text.

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  1 year ago

  by jmcilhinney

  John McIlhinney

  Sydney, Australia

  Joined 4 years ago

  [quote user="Zorro_ot"]

  Your code does work because Textbox1.Text.Length does not exceed a certain value. Please try "abc" as first word and then "0123456789abc" as first word in the next line.

  To overcome this problem, you can insert a number of TABs or CHR(9)s depending on the length of Textbox1.Text.

  [/quote] Or you could just use PadRight as I suggested.
  
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