Formatting text file to datagridview

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I am really struggling with formatting my text file into a datagrid. However I am confortable with my access method (random). The only trouble I am having is that data is being stored all in one line so I am finding it very difficult to format with things like streamreader as its only ouputting the entire textfile to only one record. I will show this in with an image. I would really appreciate some advice

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I am finding it very difficult to format with things like streamreader as its only ouputting the entire textfile to only one record.

Posted 17-Dec-17 11:29am

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Updated 17-Dec-17 11:54am

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RossMW · Answer 1 · 2017-12-17T11:54:00

If the text file is delimited with something (eg comma) then you can split the line into an array eg

var reader = new StreamReader(File.OpenRead(path));
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
  var line = reader.ReadLine();
  string[] LineCol;
  LineCol = line.Split(',');
}

From there you can set the columns to each part of the line.

Sorry in c#, but the princple is the same for VB