fileinfo to string??

[Silver Grey]

I'm getting a file from a listbox that is fileinfo. I'm going to do some reading and writing based on the data in the selected file. I can only find examples of streamreader that use file name as a string. How do I convert the fileinfo to string? Thanks

silver-gray

[Christian Graus]

Every .NET class has a tostring method. What do you mean by FileInfo ? Surely there's a sring there, what's the listbox showing ?

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[Gideon Engelberth]

You should look into the FileInfo.OpenRead and FileInfo.OpenWrite methods. This will return a FileStream that you can use in the constructor of a StreamReader. Example Imports System.IO Dim fi As FileInfo 'get object from list box Using fs As FileStream = fi.OpenRead() 'use fi.OpenWrite() for a writeable stream Using sr As New StreamReader(fs) 'read or write here End Using End Using

[manish24]

Try it out. It will read a file and will put the contents of file into a string. Dim reader As StreamReader = File.OpenText("c:\myfile.txt") Dim line As String = reader.ReadToEnd Manish

[manish24]

Try it out. This code will read a file and will put file's contents into a string Dim reader As StreamReader = File.OpenText("c:\myfile.txt") Dim line As String = reader.ReadToEnd Manish