Visual Basic

Dave Kreskowiak25-Mar-09 6:24

25-Mar-09 6:24

So what are you expecting LTrim to return?? It removes all whitespace characters from the left end of a String, like Tab and Space. If there are character values higher than these than don't have a glyph image, or has just a box image, those characters will not get removed.

You'll have to explain what you mean by "doesn't work".

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vijay248225-Mar-09 23:24

vijay2482

25-Mar-09 23:24

i want to shift the line left by 2 characters

Dave Kreskowiak26-Mar-09 3:36

26-Mar-09 3:36

No kidding, you already said that.

What I asked you is, do you know what LTrim does?? How is it suppoed to know you want to move the characters to the left, by 2 places, since you didn't specify anything like that in any of your code?

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Format 34 to 034 (3 digits)

Jon_Boy25-Mar-09 6:22

Jon_Boy

25-Mar-09 6:22

vijay2482 wrote:
f the index "Groupe" is found in name,i want to write the line altering the name by shifting it left by 2 places...

To me it sounds like you need to do a mid (getting a section of a string) vs instead of a LTRIM (trimming spaces).

vijay2482 wrote:
If m = -1 Then

Agreed w/ above poster - that's whack.

Any suggestions, ideas, or 'constructive criticism' are always welcome.

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grahamoj25-Mar-09 2:34

grahamoj

25-Mar-09 2:34

Hi all

Quick question, how do I format a number, say 34 to 034, just for better presentation? (I'm currently using String.Format("{0}", newPartNumber) )

Thanks

Re: Format 34 to 034 (3 digits)

Thomas Krojer25-Mar-09 2:49

Thomas Krojer

25-Mar-09 2:49

.Format("{0:000}",

Re: Format 34 to 034 (3 digits)

Anubhava Dimri31-Mar-09 0:57

Anubhava Dimri

31-Mar-09 0:57

Use tostring Function to Convert string Format. .Tostring("Formatofdata")
Val1= 1
Str1 = Val1.ToString("000")
//Value of Str1is 001

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want to read the next line of thecomma delimited text file

Lee Mwangi25-Mar-09 2:18

Lee Mwangi

25-Mar-09 2:18

here is my code

<dim openfiledialog="" as="" new="" mode="hold"> Dim filetoread As String
OpenFileDialog.InitialDirectory = My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.MyDocuments
OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog()
filetoread = OpenFileDialog.FileName
Dim filestream As StreamReader
filestream = File.OpenText(filetoread)
Dim readcontents As String
readcontents = filestream.ReadLine

Do While Not filestream.EndOfStream
readcontents = filestream.ReadLine
Loop

Dim textdelimiter As String
textdelimiter = ","
Dim splitout = Split(readcontents, textdelimiter)

txtt24import.Text &= readcontents

filestream.Close()

Dim sql As String = ""

If txtt24import.Text.ToString = "" Then
End
End If >

Re: want to read the next line of thecomma delimited text file

Tom Deketelaere25-Mar-09 2:45

Tom Deketelaere

25-Mar-09 2:45

So where are you stuck?
What is happening and what should be happening?
Any error?

From what I can see you read all the lines off a text file line per line (you could simply use the method 'readtoend' for that) and each time overwrite your variable 'readcontents' so you actually only have the last line in the file.

Re: want to read the next line of thecomma delimited text file

Lee Mwangi27-Mar-09 21:01

Lee Mwangi

27-Mar-09 21:01

Hi there,

No there are no errors the problem is that i dont want to use the method 'readtoend'
this is the format of the textfile

123213,john,Smith,Stanchart,xxxxx,2000,27/03/2009
123213,john,Smith,Stanchart,xxxxx,2000,27/03/2009
123213,john,Smith,Stanchart,xxxxx,2000,27/03/2009
123213,john,Smith,Stanchart,xxxxx,2000,27/03/2009

i want to read each line and insert them into a table in the db. The table is in the same format but when i 'readtoend' i will have a problem inserting the values..

Can you also assist on how to read from a path and not reading the contents into the file textbox.

Thanks in advance.

Adding task to a combobox and running it as a queue list

Quin Nee25-Mar-09 2:07

Re: Adding task to a combobox and running it as a queue list [modified]

25-Mar-09 2:07

Following the question above,

I think I know how to add it to a combobox or a datagrid, but I have no idea how to get it to run as a queue. Any ideas on this? Much help is aprreciated

Quin

Dave Kreskowiak25-Mar-09 5:03

Re: Adding task to a combobox and running it as a queue list

25-Mar-09 5:03

Simple - you don't. A combobox was designed to show a list of display values, not maintain a queue. If you really need a queue, there's a Queue collection in the System.Collections and System.Collections.Generic namespaces.

The only problem is that you can't bind the combobox to the queue. You can, however, create an array that IS bindable by calling the queue's ToArray method and binding the combo to the resulting array.

Another alternative is to create your own custom collection that uses a queue internally, but also exposes itself as bindable by implementing the IList interface[^]. (Sorry, IBindingList won't work with the ComboBox)

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modified on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:18 PM

Quin Nee27-Mar-09 8:10

Re: Adding task to a combobox and running it as a queue list

27-Mar-09 8:10

Thanks for the fast reply. Then is it possible to bind data selection from the combobox and put it into a queue list? But I want to display this queue list, should I use datagrid view or something else?

Dave Kreskowiak27-Mar-09 11:46

Re: Adding task to a combobox and running it as a queue list

27-Mar-09 11:46

You can bind a different list to the combo, or just add each item individually. As for the queue, you just handle the selection changed event of the combo and add the item to the queue as required.

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Quin Nee2-Apr-09 6:16

Re: Adding task to a combobox and running it as a queue list

2-Apr-09 6:16

Alright, I have added it to the queue list and now I want to send it out as a string but the queue item is object type. I tried looking up at the function Ctype to convert it but it keeps giving me errors with this message "Conversion from type 'String()' to type 'String' is not valid." What am I doing wrong?

Private Sub RunTest_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RunTest.Click
        Dim datatry As Object

        datatry = tasklist.Dequeue
        DataSend = datatry
        'serialPort.Write(DataSend)
        ListBox1.Items.RemoveAt(0)
    End Sub

Dave Kreskowiak2-Apr-09 15:04

Re: Adding task to a combobox and running it as a queue list

2-Apr-09 15:04

It's trying to tell you that you added a String array as a single element to the queue.

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Quin Nee2-Apr-09 22:33

Re: Adding task to a combobox and running it as a queue list

2-Apr-09 22:33

Then how should I write it? I'm not too sure how it goes. It's just this error stopping me from writing to the serial port. I tried adding to .ToString at the end but It just gives me an empty string

Quin Nee3-Apr-09 1:01

3-Apr-09 1:01

Finally got it down to rewriting the whole process of adding to queue. Seems like I did not join the individual arrays before adding them to the queue. Once I joined the arrays together and add it to queue as a single element, it can display the string as it should. Thanks for all the help. Laugh | :laugh:

VS 2008 Team edition

Moe200925-Mar-09 0:13

Moe2009

25-Mar-09 0:13

VS 2008 Team edition SP1 can only read .vbs files, however can not give any indication on the errand code or running it, so anyone can help on sharing an insight on the VS solution to that problem, or suggest a freeware "reliable" editor that can help. Thnx

Ashfield25-Mar-09 2:17

Ashfield

25-Mar-09 2:17

I suspect you have not installed it fully, I use it all the time to do C# and VB

Bob
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Moe200925-Mar-09 2:37

Moe2009

25-Mar-09 2:37

so what went wrong during instaltion

Smithers-Jones25-Mar-09 3:16

Smithers-Jones

25-Mar-09 3:16

Moe2009 wrote:
so what went wrong during instaltion

Hard to say, without my telepathic-look-back-in-time-thingy, which is unfortunately broken at the moment and won't come back from the laboratory for another week.

0x3c025-Mar-09 9:24

0x3c0

25-Mar-09 9:24

I've just sent it off. It was broken by the attempted scanning of a very dense object. Try to keep it away from the question forums