> Hello,
>
> I give up .... probably I'm too stupid to understand but I cannot figure
> out how to write a string to a certain place in a file.
>
> This is what I like to do:
> Somewhere in a file is a section called '[settings]', every time the
> application is opened there is a veryfication to see when it was the
> last date/time it was running, by reading the very first line under
> '[settings]', and if the  date is responding to other settings in the
> program, the program will run otherwise it stays closed. If it may run,
> the new rundate is written to the same place.
> That's what I intend to do.
> But I cannot find out how to write to that specific location. This
> location can be anywhere in the file, but always under the section name.
>
> Sorry, but I cannot explain this better, I'm not English ... I hope you
> guys (and girls) can undestand what I like to do. After 2 whole days of
> trying I give up :-)
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Opa Vito

"Opa Vito" <gebr***@dit.niet> schreef in bericht
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> Hello,
>
> I give up .... probably I'm too stupid to understand but I cannot figure
> out how to write a string to a certain place in a file.
>
> This is what I like to do:
> Somewhere in a file is a section called '[settings]', every time the
> application is opened there is a veryfication to see when it was the last
> date/time it was running, by reading the very first line under
> '[settings]', and if the  date is responding to other settings in the
> program, the program will run otherwise it stays closed. If it may run,
> the new rundate is written to the same place.
> That's what I intend to do.
> But I cannot find out how to write to that specific location. This
> location can be anywhere in the file, but always under the section name.
>
> Sorry, but I cannot explain this better, I'm not English ... I hope you
> guys (and girls) can undestand what I like to do. After 2 whole days of
> trying I give up :-)
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Opa Vito

> Cor Ligthert [MVP] schreef:
>
>> Stop calling yourself Opa and excusing you for your English, you have
>> a middle finger for if somebody tells you that it is not good.
>>
> OK, no problem.
> But I'm a granddad, in Flemish and Dutch: an 'opa' :-)
> Yes, you are right, I had several American and Canadian penpals and my
> English was even better than their's ...
>
>> Why do you not use the registry (register in Dutch), it is easy to
>> use in VB.Net so in my idea the direct solution?
>>
> No, I don't want to use registry at the moment. But I made a study and
> if there is no way to do it with a file I will use reading and writing
> from and to the registry. To me it must be possible to write a
> function that looks first to a certain keyword in a file (like
> [settings]) and write data to that place ...
>
> All tips are very welcome.
>
> Vito
>

"Opa Vito" <gebr***@dit.niet> schreef in bericht
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> Cor Ligthert [MVP] schreef:
>> Stop calling yourself Opa and excusing you for your English, you have a
>> middle finger for if somebody tells you that it is not good.
>
> OK, no problem.
> But I'm a granddad, in Flemish and Dutch: an 'opa' :-)
>
> Yes, you are right, I had several American and Canadian penpals and my
> English was even better than their's ...
>
>>
>> Why do you not use the registry (register in Dutch), it is easy to use in
>> VB.Net so in my idea the direct solution?
>
> No, I don't want to use registry at the moment. But I made a study and if
> there is no way to do it with a file I will use reading and writing from
> and to the registry. To me it must be possible to write a function that
> looks first to a certain keyword in a file (like [settings]) and write
> data to that place ...
>
> All tips are very welcome.
>
> Vito

> Vito,
>
> Just an XML file, the most easy one in that is a dataset.
>
> \\\
> dim ds as new dataset
> dim dt as new datatable
> dim dc1 as datacolumn("een")
> dim dc2 as datacolumn("twee")
> etc
> ds.tables.Add(dt)
> dt.columns.Add(dc1)
> dt.columns.Add(dc2)
> dt.loaddatarow(new object() {"Vlaams","Nederlands"},true)
> dt.loaddatarow(new object() {"Waals",French"},true)
> dt.rows(2)("twee")="Frans"
> ds.writeXML("C:\whatever\whatever")
> ///
> and to read it
> \\\
> ds.readXML("C:\whatever\whatever")
> ///
> I wrote this in this message so watch typos or whatever.
>
> I hope this helps,

"Opa Vito" <gebr***@dit.niet> schreef in bericht
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> Opa Vito schreef:
>
>> Small question:
>> do I have to use DataView to assign a field to a string, as for
>> retrieving a name from <name>Lisette</name> ?
>> It's rather confusing ...
>
> I found it :-)
> Took me almost the whole day but I can read now from a dataset that is
> filled with data from an XML file ... next: writing to the xml file.
>
> Vito
>
>
>
>