Opening text in a listbox on different lines

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Hi, all i want to do is open the text in the listbox on separate lines so i can individually click them when the program is running:
Current code:

Private Sub getlist_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles getlist.Click
        Dim aclient As New Net.WebClient

        aclient.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("****", "****")
        Dim a As String
        a = aclient.DownloadString("ftp://URL.chat.txt")

        Dim b As String() = a.Split(vbNewLine)
        ListBox1.Items.AddRange(b)

It currently opens it all on one line... can anyone help?
Example:
In text file

192939394:2993
293992394:9324
293949394:4992

Currently displays:
192939394:2993293992394:9324293949394:4992
I want it to display like in the text file, but be interactive by being in the listbox

Posted 16-Nov-12 6:52am

Member 9605439

Updated 16-Nov-12 6:57am

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Thomas Daniels 16-Nov-12 12:55pm

What's the value of vbNewLine?

Member 9605439 16-Nov-12 12:58pm

it doesnt have a value, its just something i added in to see if it helped

It was one of the suggestions

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Nov-12 13:01pm

No! If this things executes at all, it has a value. And it should.
--SA

3 solutions

Solution 1

Try this:

VB

Private Sub getlist_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles getlist.Click
Dim aclient As New Net.WebClient
aclient.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("****", "****")
Dim a As String
a = aclient.DownloadString("ftp://URL.chat.txt")

Dim b As String() = a.Split(vbLf)
ListBox1.Items.AddRange(b)

Hope this helps.

Posted 16-Nov-12 7:06am

Thomas Daniels

Solution 3

I used this code for my minecraft server creator but here it is:

VB

ListBox1.Items.Clear()
For X As Integer = 0 To TextBox3.Lines.Count - 1
ListBox1.Items.Add(TextBox3.Lines(X))
Next

Hope this helped :)

Posted 17-Nov-12 12:49pm

JamesWalsh222

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-16T07:21:00

"Does not have a value" is absurd — please see my comment to the question.

One little problem is that you don't know what is the line delimiter in "URL.char.txt" — it is system dependent, and original OS also could be unknown, but it's relatively simple to write "one-size-fits-all" code, something like a.Split(New Char() {ControlChars.Lf, ControlChars.Tab}, System.StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).

There are other delimiter as Unicode section/paragraph end characters, but they are very rare these days; if you want, you can also take them into account. You might need to auto-detect encoding with BOM, if the text might use Unicode.

—SA