VB.Net Streamreader

Question

Good morning all.
I have basic coding skills so please bear with me!
I have created an application which writes a line of text to a file, simple enough. The line itself says xxxxxx | xxxxxx.
Could someone tell how i extract the second part of that line after the pipe?
The intention is to pass this text to a cmd line.
Many thanks
Simon

Answer 1

You can do something like (test file "E:\Testxxx.txt"):

Dim sString As String = Nothing
Using sr As New StreamReader("E:\Testxxx.txt")
    sString = sr.ReadToEnd()
End Using
Dim sSubString = sString.Substring(sString.LastIndexOf("|") + 1)
Console.WriteLine(sSubString)

Answer 2

Thank you very much for your quick reply.

I shall give that a go and let you know how i get on!

Kind regards
Simon

Answer 3

Hi Castorix31,

That's perfect, that has extracted the information i need :)

One last bit now, how can i send that text to a CMD line? I need the CMD line to open and run with that text and stay open (so i can check its run ok).

I have looked online but there are multiple examples but none quite do what i want them to do!

Thanks so much.
Simon

Answer 4

No problem Valdom.

I'll start another thread.