I just realized the SEEK method has the same problem, from what I
understand, it sets the file pointer to the beginning of the file, and
can't be changed!!! I need a way to set the streamreader to a certain
place in the line, I already know the column number  , am I right that
seek is not the right thing to use here? I already tried read() and
doesn't work either.

thanks

Ataanis,

There are more seeks, what seek do you mean.

http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?st=b&na=80&qu=seek&View=msdn

Cor

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basically I need to be able to read from a specified location on the
line, can you tell me how to do that?

You need to be more clear about what you are trying to do. Are you opening a
Database file like Access and trying to read some data? ( you mentioned in
your original post that you already had the "Column" ) Seek is usually
associated with opening a file and manually reading the raw data, usually
using a FileStream. It can be used with Binary files and a lot of others as
Cor mentioned.  As far as I know, there is no SEEK method for accessing a
database file.  How about an example of what you have done so far?
james

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Usually Binary open lets you pick any bits you want from out of any file.
Haven't needed to try it with .Net so far.

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