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  • kronecker@yahoo.co.uk
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    Data Files

    I have a long list of jokes and I wish to select them randomly from a
    big file. What is teh best way to select them? Ordinary Text or XML?
    Also how do I index them? I know howto read text files so I suppose I
    could use a separator of some sort bewteen jokes but I am thinking
    that they may all need to be read into an array first?

    Thanks

    K.
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    • kimiraikkonen
      #2
      Re: Data Files

      On Aug 2, 2:33 am, kronec...@yahoo .co.uk wrote:
      I have a long list of jokes and I wish to select them randomly from a
      big file. What is teh best way to select them? Ordinary Text or XML?
      Also how do I index them? I know howto read text files so I suppose I
      could use a separator of some sort bewteen jokes but I am thinking
      that they may all need to be read into an array first?
      >
      Thanks
      >
      K.
      If you can list your jokes line by line in a text file:

      You can read your text content using StreamReader,
      and assign the content to a multi-line textbox:

      '------Code Begins-------
      Imports System.IO

      Using reader As New StreamReader("c :\jokes.txt")
      ' I recommend setting "Wordwrap" to False for
      ' textbox not to force long lines to be misaligned.

      TextBox1.Text = reader.ReadToEn d

      End Using
      '----Code Ends--------

      After loading all the jokes into a textbox(even you can hide the
      textbox by making its visible property to False), and now you can
      select them randomly as you can use textbox's "lines" property with
      Random class:

      '------Code Begins-------
      ' Like that:
      Dim rand As New Random
      Dim selectedRand As String
      selectedRand = TextBox1.Lines _
      (rand.Next(0, TextBox1.Lines. Length))
      ' eg: Display random joke in MsgBox
      MsgBox(selected Rand)
      '-----Code Ends------

      Plus, you can make the textbox read-only not to be modified by user,
      and make it invisible not to be seen by user depending on your wish.

      Hope this helps,

      Onur Güzel

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        • kronecker@yahoo.co.uk
          #3
          Re: Data Files



          kimiraikkonen wrote:
          On Aug 2, 2:33 am, kronec...@yahoo .co.uk wrote:
          I have a long list of jokes and I wish to select them randomly from a
          big file. What is teh best way to select them? Ordinary Text or XML?
          Also how do I index them? I know howto read text files so I suppose I
          could use a separator of some sort bewteen jokes but I am thinking
          that they may all need to be read into an array first?

          Thanks

          K.
          >
          If you can list your jokes line by line in a text file:
          >
          You can read your text content using StreamReader,
          and assign the content to a multi-line textbox:
          >
          '------Code Begins-------
          Imports System.IO
          >
          Using reader As New StreamReader("c :\jokes.txt")
          ' I recommend setting "Wordwrap" to False for
          ' textbox not to force long lines to be misaligned.
          >
          TextBox1.Text = reader.ReadToEn d
          >
          End Using
          '----Code Ends--------
          >
          After loading all the jokes into a textbox(even you can hide the
          textbox by making its visible property to False), and now you can
          select them randomly as you can use textbox's "lines" property with
          Random class:
          >
          '------Code Begins-------
          ' Like that:
          Dim rand As New Random
          Dim selectedRand As String
          selectedRand = TextBox1.Lines _
          (rand.Next(0, TextBox1.Lines. Length))
          ' eg: Display random joke in MsgBox
          MsgBox(selected Rand)
          '-----Code Ends------
          >
          Plus, you can make the textbox read-only not to be modified by user,
          and make it invisible not to be seen by user depending on your wish.
          >
          Hope this helps,
          >
          Onur G�zel
          Thanks, do you mean each joke per line? Otehrwise how would I know
          where one joke started and the otehr ended? So just put each jok in a
          very long line in the text file?

          regards

          K.

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            • kimiraikkonen
              #4
              Re: Data Files

              On Aug 2, 11:08 am, kronec...@yahoo .co.uk wrote:
              kimiraikkonen wrote:
              On Aug 2, 2:33 am, kronec...@yahoo .co.uk wrote:
              I have a long list of jokes and I wish to select them randomly from a
              big file. What is teh best way to select them? Ordinary Text or XML?
              Also how do I index them? I know howto read text files so I suppose I
              could use  a separator of some sort bewteen jokes but I am thinking
              that they may all need to be read into an array first?
              >
              Thanks
              >
              K.
              >
              If you can list your jokes line by line in a text file:
              >
              You can read your text content using StreamReader,
              and assign the content to a multi-line textbox:
              >
              '------Code Begins-------
              Imports System.IO
              >
              Using reader As New StreamReader("c :\jokes.txt")
              ' I recommend setting "Wordwrap" to False for
              ' textbox not to force long lines to be misaligned.
              >
              TextBox1.Text = reader.ReadToEn d
              >
              End Using
              '----Code Ends--------
              >
              After loading all the jokes into a textbox(even you can hide the
              textbox by making its visible property to False), and now you can
              select them randomly as you can use textbox's "lines" property with
              Random class:
              >
              '------Code Begins-------
              ' Like that:
               Dim rand As New Random
              Dim selectedRand As String
              selectedRand = TextBox1.Lines _
              (rand.Next(0, TextBox1.Lines. Length))
              ' eg: Display random joke in MsgBox
              MsgBox(selected Rand)
              '-----Code Ends------
              >
              Plus, you can make the textbox read-only not to be modified by user,
              and make it invisible not to be seen by user depending on your wish.
              >
              Hope this helps,
              >
              Onur G zel
              >
              Thanks, do you mean each joke per line? Otehrwise how would I know
              where one joke started and the otehr ended? So just put each jok in a
              very long line in the text file?
              >
              regards
              >
              K.- Hide quoted text -
              >
              - Show quoted text -
              Yes, the way i mentioned was assuming each joke was seperated line by
              line in a text file. I don't know how you store your jokes so that was
              just a way of doing it. Also you can use string's split method
              depending how your jokes (strings) are stored and will be delimited.
              http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ing.split.aspx

              Thanks,

              Onur Güzel

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