TextFieldParser.Delimiters Property

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

Source:: TextFieldParser.vb

Source:: TextFieldParser.vb

Source:: TextFieldParser.vb

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Defines the delimiters for a text file.

public:
 property cli::array <System::String ^> ^ Delimiters { cli::array <System::String ^> ^ get(); void set(cli::array <System::String ^> ^ value); };

public string[]? Delimiters { get; set; }

public string[] Delimiters { get; set; }

member this.Delimiters : string[] with get, set

Public Property Delimiters As String()

Property Value

String[]

A string array that contains all of the field delimiters for the TextFieldParser object.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

A delimiter value is set to a newline character, an empty string, or Nothing.

Examples

This example specifies that the delimiter for the TextFieldParser object, FileReader, is a comma (,).

FileReader.TextFieldType = Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FieldType.Delimited
FileReader.Delimiters = New String() {","}

Remarks

This property is meaningful only if the TextFieldType property is set to FieldType.Delimited.

Defining the delimiters for a text file can also be accomplished with the SetDelimiters method.

The following table lists an example of a task involving the Delimiters property.

To	See
Read from a delimited text file	How to: Read From Comma-Delimited Text Files

Applies to

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