Read a Text File and get the Specific stirng padded Date

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Hello,
Firstly I just want to thank those who have assisted me in my 2 recent questions. I have got them over and it's okay now. However, I'm working on a project to read several text files, validate them and process them to align it for processing by another system so I'll post for assistance regularly. So thank you to the code gurus who are assisting such intermediate programmers like me.

My next issue is, I have a text file. It has header strings which are rightpadded. What I want is to read the text file and pick up the date on the header. The header details are as follows.

H100 FileName Date Officer Test
jhashdjha ajshdja ahdjahdjahjdh hadjhdjahdjs aj hdja

H100 -is Padded Right 9, FileName - is padded Right 12, Date - is padded right 10, Officer - is padded right 12 and tes - is padded right 4.

After the header there are obviously other texts. Please assist to grab the Date from the header. I have searched the web adn couldn't grab something in line to this quickly so I'm asking.

Thanking in advance.

Posted 22-May-13 15:11pm

ekipongi

Updated 22-May-13 15:12pm

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Prasaad SJ 22-May-13 21:51pm

Hi.. May I know what is this 9,12,10 numbers that you have specified.

ekipongi 22-May-13 23:45pm

These are the padding values for the headers. E.g H100 has a padding of 9.

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_Damian S_ · Answer 1 · 2013-05-22T16:51:00

Solution 1

So you are parsing a line of fixed width fields... Read the line in, take the first nine chars and store in H100, take the next 12 chars and store in FileName, continue until you have consumed all chars.

Then, use the variables that you have stored the data in for whatever tasks you need them for.

MSDN - How to read from a text file [^]

Other functions that will help you: left, right, mid, instr

Posted 22-May-13 16:51pm

_Damian S_

Updated 22-May-13 18:25pm

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ekipongi 22-May-13 23:47pm

Thanks _Damian S_. Could you please post some codes for that. I'v worked on it and I'm really stuck and need assistance urgently. Thanks

_Damian S_ 23-May-13 0:25am

I've updated my answer above.

Abhinav S 23-May-13 0:27am

5!