Getting first line of a text file

[KillerTomato]

Hello, I am making a small restaurant management software program. I was wondering how to get the first line and display its text in a textbox. This is part of the clockin process.
Employer will make a employee file containing the persons info lie first name last name, address, etc, etc. The file name will be the employee's clockin/clockout number. What they will do is they will enter their number, click the Employee Number button. The program will then goto the employee#.txt file and display the first line of text which is where the employee name is stored. Then if their name is shown then they click Employee Clock-In/Employee Clock-Out button. This is to help and be sure that no one clocks in or clocked out the wrong person. I thought about doing this with a MS Access database but I'm no real good with databases yet. Do if yall can help me with this. I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks in advance

 

[giadich]

Call the ReadLine method to read one line of text at a time.

http://brian-dao.blogspot.com/2007/05/reading-text-file-using-streamreader.html

If you are not real farmiliar with Access database, how about trying XML? In my opinion, it will be much easier for you since you don't have to deal with relational database design.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I would put all of this into an Access database, it'll make things much more easier to manage and update later on