Delete first line from txt file

[61cygni]

Hi,

I'd like to delete the first line of a text file from the click of a button.

Hope someone can help

Regards,

Steve K

 

[shatch]

i would recommend reading in the text file, get the index of the first vbcrlf and removing all text up to this point. If you need more guidance let me know and i will give you some code

 

[61cygni]

Hi,

If you could provide some code that'd be very helpful

Regards,

Steve K

 

[shatch]

Hi,

its fridayt afternoon and time to go home, so i only write a little code for you, it essentially opens the file and removes the text until the first vbcrlf, so all you have to write is the part to overwrite the existing file, sorry i couldnt finish it, but its the weekend


Dim myFile As File
Dim strFile As String
Dim sr As StreamReader = myFile.OpenText("c:\myfile.txt")
strFile = sr.ReadToEnd
sr.Close()

strFile = strFile.Substring(strFile.IndexOf(vbCrLf) + 1)

 

[61cygni]

thank-you very much that's a big help. Hope you have a nice weekend

 

[61cygni]

Completed code

Dim myFile As File
Dim strFile As String

Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader("C:\label.txt")
strFile = sr.ReadToEnd
sr.Close()

strFile = strFile.Substring(strFile.IndexOf(vbCrLf) + 1)

Dim sw As New System.IO.StreamWriter("C:\label.txt")
sw.WriteLine(strFile)
sw.Close()