Why is streamreader not reading entire file

[edge691]

Hello All,

I'm just getting into programming, bit of a newbie.

I'm having an issue with the streamreader. I had it working but I've changed something and it has stopped.

I have it in a Do While loop reading line by line, but it doesn't finish reading. It reads about 27 lines out of 4000, then stops.

I changed the contents of the file it was reading, but it's still just save as a txt notepad file.

I also changed how I tell it which file to open (UserSelection. T2) however it does open the file just doesn't finish reading it.

Doesn't kick back any errors, it just doesn't read the entire file.

Dim FSO As Object
Dim File As Object
FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
File = FSO.OpenTextFile(UserSelection.T2, 1)
File.ReadAll()
Dim FileLength As Integer
FileLength = File.line - 1
Dim FileLengthCounter As Integer = 0
Dim sLine As String = ""
Dim objReader As New StreamReader(UserSelection.T2)

Do While FileLengthCounter < FileLength
sLine = objReader.ReadLine()

If Not sLine Is Nothing Then
Dim StringSearch As Integer = 0
StringSearch = InStr(sLine.ToString, sTextDate)
if StringSearch > 0 Then
      		
'do stuff

End If

End If
End If
FileLengthCounter = FileLengthCounter + 1
Loop
objReader.Close()

[Aimee Bailey]

It's fantastic that your getting into programming, to point you in the right direction, here's an example of what i would do...

Imports System.IO

Public Class Form1

    Sub SearchFile(ByVal file As String,search As String)

        Using fs As New FileStream(file, FileMode.Open, _
                                   FileAccess.Read)
            Using sr As New StreamReader(fs)

                Dim CurrentLine = sr.ReadLine()
                If Not IsNothing(CurrentLine) And _
                    CurrentLine.Contains(search) Then

                    'do stuff

                End If

            End Using
        End Using

    End Sub

End Class

Thanks to .Net's, there are many shorthand ways of doing things that save time. The example i've provided uses the FileStream and StreamReader directly, taking advantage of the Using keywords, we make sure that the file is closed and disposed once we have finished with it, and also using the String classes Contains function to make work much easier.

Ofcourse this is a slightly narrowed way of doing things, but hopefully from the example you will be able to expand on it.

Best Regards!

Aimee