Reading Fixed Lenght File with FileGet Byte Array

[UncleCake]

Hi, I am trying to read a file that has fixed length records and is indexed. The array has 200 elements. My FileGet reads like this:

FileGet(FileNumber, FileData(0), RecordNumber)

I am only getting one character in place "0" and I don't even know if that is correct. Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

[woogoo]

If I were you I'd check the validity of FileNumber and RecordNumber as well. This assumes that in this code the FileData is an array of size X, where X is the physical record size?

Also, you may want to make your life easier and create a couple of custom classes. Class A would be an Item class i.e. a class representation of your Record, and Class B would be a collection of these.

You could then simply read a record at a time and add it to the collection. Or even better serialise it onto and off of disk.


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Woogoo

 

[UncleCake]

Thanks Woogoo, I was finally able to read the record (after 3 days of working on it), but I have a 'Warning' about the Implicit conversion from 'System.Array' to '1-dimensional array of Byte'....

I will have to see what this means and go from there.