below is some codes.

my arraylist below reads from a file.  My files contains blank line (ie
carriage return)

My message dialog shows all strings being captured. However i do not want my
array to contain "blank" string/line/carriage return

How do i remove the index so that my arraylist become smaller ?





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Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader(filespath)

Dim line As String

Do

line = sr.ReadLine

'add each line into arraylist

If InStr(line, ";") <> 1 Then

filestoexecute.Add(line)

End If

Loop Until line Is Nothing

sr.Close()

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For Each i In filestoexecute

MessageBox.Show(i)

Next

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So you're trying to leave out blank lines and comments?

If the line is blank, Instr() will return 0, which isn't 1, so will add the
line.
To exclude blank lines as well (if I can remember the "old" syntax for
this),
try this :

    If Len( line ) > 0 _
    AndAlso Instr( line, ";" ) <> 1 _
    Then

(BTW, using the methods on the String class, thios would be)

    If line.Length > 0 _
    AndAlso Not line.StartsWith( ";" ) _
    Then

HTH,
    Phill  W.

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If Len(line) > 0 AndAlso InStr(line, ";") <> 1 Then
    ...
End If
///

If you want to check the string with spaces on the right and left end of the
string, use 'Len(Trim(line)) > 0'.

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