Problems reading a text file in VB 6.0

29 Nov 2006 6:52 PM

TeABaG_

I am trying to read a text file with utf-8 encoding in Visual Basic 6.0. The
problem is that when I use the "Line Input" method, it gets more than what is
really on the first line when I look at the file with a text editor. The
same code works fine with VBScript, but I converted this code over to Visual
Basic and now I cannot get it to work. I can send an example file to anyone
if that would help. I am guessing that perhaps the Line Input method looks
for a NewLine character but utf-8 encoding has these characters differently?
This was working great in VBScript using the ReadLine method, but now I
cannot get the same thing to work in VB. Also, I am using VB 6.0, not VB
..NET. Thanks in advance.

29 Nov 2006 9:11 PM

TeABaG_

I think I have some more info which may be helpful. Each line in my file
ends with a vbLf (not a vbCrLf or vbNewLine). So is there a way to use the
Line Input command to read lines by Line feeds, not by new line characters?
Or would it be better to read the entire file into a string and then sort
that string based up Line feeds? Not quite sure how to approach this.

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"TeABaG_" wrote:

> I am trying to read a text file with utf-8 encoding in Visual Basic 6.0. The
> problem is that when I use the "Line Input" method, it gets more than what is
> really on the first line when I look at the file with a text editor. The
> same code works fine with VBScript, but I converted this code over to Visual
> Basic and now I cannot get it to work. I can send an example file to anyone
> if that would help. I am guessing that perhaps the Line Input method looks
> for a NewLine character but utf-8 encoding has these characters differently?
> This was working great in VBScript using the ReadLine method, but now I
> cannot get the same thing to work in VB. Also, I am using VB 6.0, not VB
> .NET. Thanks in advance.

30 Nov 2006 9:30 AM

Michel Posseth [MCP]

Although your question is in the wrong newsgroup ( this is a VB.Net
newsgroup )

I can answer your question :

You should use FSO ( file system object ) in VB6 to do what you want

once i strugled with the same problem and decided to share the solution for
my situation

so look here

http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/22282

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]

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"TeABaG_" wrote:

> I am trying to read a text file with utf-8 encoding in Visual Basic 6.0. The
> problem is that when I use the "Line Input" method, it gets more than what is
> really on the first line when I look at the file with a text editor. The
> same code works fine with VBScript, but I converted this code over to Visual
> Basic and now I cannot get it to work. I can send an example file to anyone
> if that would help. I am guessing that perhaps the Line Input method looks
> for a NewLine character but utf-8 encoding has these characters differently?
> This was working great in VBScript using the ReadLine method, but now I
> cannot get the same thing to work in VB. Also, I am using VB 6.0, not VB
> .NET. Thanks in advance.