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Hi all

I am having trouble trying to code a certain program and wondered if you could help. It uses an adress book in the form of a .txt file in the debug folder. The text file contains: a surname and first name, two lines of the adress and post code, a telephone number, date of birth, email adress.
I need to create a program to search this data file by surname to retrive and display the details for a contact. Also by date of birth to retrive and display all contacts with a birthday in a particular month.

I am using Microsoft visual basic 2010 express

Here is the .txt file:
Jackson Samantha,2 Heather Row,Basingstoke,RG21 3SD,01256 135434,23/04/1973,sam.jackson@hotmail.com
Vickers Jonathan,18 Saville Gardens,Reading,RG3 5FH,01196 678254,04/02/1965,the_man@btinternet.com
Morris Sally,The Old Lodge,Hook,RG23 5RD,01256 728443,19/02/1975,smorris@fgh.co.uk
Cobbly Harry,345 The High Street,Guildford,GU2 4KJ,01458 288763,30/03/1960,harry.cobbly@somewhere.org.uk
Khan Jasmine,36 Hever Avenue,Edenbridge,TN34 4FG,01569 276524,28/02/1980,jas.khan@hotmail.com
Vickers Harriet,45 Sage Gardens,Brighton,BN3 2FG,01675 662554,04/04/1968,harriet.vickers@btinternet.com

All help would be highly appriciated.
Thanks - Conor.

Posted 13-Jun-13 23:20pm

Conorthecoder43

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[no name] 14-Jun-13 5:24am

And what kind of help are you looking for? There is no question here or any kind of a description of a problem.

Conorthecoder43 14-Jun-13 5:26am

I'm just asking for someone to make the program with the task given, thanks.

[no name] 14-Jun-13 5:58am

Well no one here is going to write a program for you. You would need to go to rentacoder for that and hire someone to write the code.

Richard MacCutchan 14-Jun-13 6:04am

With a name like "Conorthecoder43" I would assume you could do this in an hour or less.

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2013-06-13T23:35:00

I would:

Parse the file (it is simple, read a line at time and use String.Split to retrieve its different field values).

Then either:

Store the parsed info inside a database and use such database for searching, etc...

or

Maintain such data in main memory (if feasible) and perform the seraching operation using it.

Note: with a DataSet you may actually take advantage of the database facilities without having an actual database connection.