Read from a cvs file

[tripes]

i am using VB.NET 2003 and i need to read some data from a cvs file and store it into a two dimensional array.... i couldn't find an example anywhere.. pls help

 

[cjard]

What's a CVS file?

 

[mbb]

Did you mean a csv file, as in a spreadsheet?

By definition it ought to be a text file, so you can read each line using a textreader into a string object.

Then you can use the split method to split by a certain delimiter. For csv files the delimiter is usually a comma.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

For csv files the delimiter is usually a comma.

For csv (Comma Separated Value) the delimiter has to be a comma. Otherwise you'd be injecting confusion into things.

But the question remains:

What's a CVS file?

 

[cjard]

CVS is Concurrent Version System. THe OP might be asking how to get a file out of a CVS repository, hence my question (so that we dont waste time explaining the wrong thing)

 

[tripes]

sorry my mistake i meant csv file

 

[InertiaM]

i couldn't find an example anywhere.. pls help

I searched on this forum for "read from CSV file", and it returned 65 related topics. I'm sure some of them would give you a starting point.