Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Seattle, WA USA
Posts: 413

HELP w/ Programming a VB program

HELP w/ Programming a VB program

Hello,

I need help programming this idea in VB. I want to take some log files from a program and parse certain columns and have the program produce an output file with the parsed data extracted.

I don't know really where to start -- can anyone give me any tips and/or strategies to accomplish this problem?

Thanks in Advance!

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: St Petersburg Fla
Posts: 224

Use Mid$.
Or if you want speed, call a VC++ DLL.
For most things, Mid$ works fine.
If you think that the locations and lengths of data may change, you can keep the offsets and lengths in the Registry. This way, there would be no program changes.
If you need data validation, create a class that parses the input and raises errors on invalid data.