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About Syed Rizwan Muhammad Rizvi
Expertise
I can answers questions regarding web based and desktop based programming in VB.Net. Which can include SOAP, XML, Custom Controls, COM Interoperability etc.

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Have been working in this specific area for last 2 years previously I was a VB 6 Developer with experties in other languages as well. Total 10 years of programming experience.

 
   

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Topic: VB.NET



Expert: Syed Rizwan Muhammad Rizvi
Date: 2/24/2008
Subject: Reading text file and parsing

Question
Hi Rizwan I have a gps string which i am trying to parse. It is saved in a text file. I have to read it, and get the info i need and rubbish the rest, and show that info in the form below:
$GPGGA,092204.999,4250.5589,S,14718.5084,E,1,04,24.4,19.7,M,,,,0000*1F

I need to display the 2,3,4,5 & 6 bit of info in text boxes
Thanks for your help  

Answer
Hello Shahid,

I am assuming by bits you mean the comma seperated values.

This is very easy to achieve in VB.Net.

Please look into My.Computer.FileSystem Namespace,

This link will greatly help you: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cakac7e6(VS.80).aspx

If you have more questions please let me know.

Regards,
Riz

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