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How do I read information froma file?

I keep on coming across situations where reading data from a file would be incredibly useful. Are there any standard methods to get at the data I need, ignoring the stuff I don't want and placing that data somewhere where I can manipulate it in my program.

Currently I want to read subtitle data from an XML based subtitle file. The data looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DCSubtitle Version="1.0">
<SubtitleID>SomeID</SubtitleID>
<MovieTitle>Some Movie</MovieTitle>
<ReelNumber>1</ReelNumber>
<Language>French</Language>


<Subtitle SpotNumber="1" TimeIn="10:00:58:080" TimeOut="10:01:01:220" FadeUpTime="20" FadeDownTime="20">
<Text Direction="horizontal" HAlign="center" HPosition="0.0" VAlign="bottom" VPosition="14.0">some Caption</Text>
<Text Direction="horizontal" HAlign="center" HPosition="0.0" VAlign="bottom" VPosition="6.0">Some Caption</Text>
</Subtitle>


<Subtitle SpotNumber="2" TimeIn="10:01:02:020" TimeOut="10:01:05:220" FadeUpTime="20" FadeDownTime="20">
<Text Direction="horizontal" HAlign="center" HPosition="0.0" VAlign="bottom" VPosition="14.0">Some Caption</Text>
<Text Direction="horizontal" HAlign="center" HPosition="0.0" VAlign="bottom" VPosition="6.0">Some Caption</Text>
</Subtitle>

</DCSubtitle>

What can I do with this?

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davidogdenblue

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wow fast response thanks!

What should I be declaring "dg" as?

davidogdenblue

ASKER

Sorry I ignored the code that you seemed to have commented out. Whoops

iboutchkine

dg is a datagrid name. Paste the code and you can run it