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These are normaly a good place to look into Regular Expressions &nbsp;Very quick and effective way of deciphering and splitting alot of data.<br />
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<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcomregularexpressions.asp" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcomregularexpressions.asp</a><br />
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They seem kindof cryptic at first but are a valuable tool.<br />
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Corey2
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These are normaly a good place to look into Regular Expressions  Very quick and effective way of deciphering and splitting alot of data.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcomregularexpressions.asp [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcomregularexpressions.asp]

They seem kindof cryptic at first but are a valuable tool.

Corey2

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The jet provider (ODBC adapter) supports fixed width files through the use of a schema.ini file.<br />
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<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbc/htm/odbcjetschema_ini_file.asp" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbc/htm/odbcjetschema_ini_file.asp</a>
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The jet provider (ODBC adapter) supports fixed width files through the use of a schema.ini file.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbc/htm/odbcjetschema_ini_file.asp [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbc/htm/odbcjetschema_ini_file.asp]

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I have a text file that is not delimited and I need to extract imformation from the file and place it in an sql database.<br />
I am coding &nbsp;using VB.Net.<br />
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Is their some way in .Net to count the characters, so I can use that returned value to help me extract the <br />
values I need. <br />
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I am using ASP.NET/VB.NET<br />
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Thanks.<br />

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I have a text file that is not delimited and I need to extract imformation from the file and place it in an sql database.
I am coding  using VB.Net.

Is their some way in .Net to count the characters, so I can use that returned value to help me extract the 
values I need. 

I am using ASP.NET/VB.NET

Thanks.


How to manipulate data on a non-delimited text file?

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,