StreamReader and special tag problem

[cecildt]

Hi, I try to import a simple text file that have many rows with a special row format Example: |item|123|any items|4.50| When I read the lines in from the text file it removes the '|' tag. Why is that?? Example Code: StreamReader importFile = File.OpenText(txtPath.Text); txtLines.Text = txtLines.Text + importFile.ReadLine(); I know I'm missing something simple. Thanks for any help.

[Christian Graus]

Perhaps | is a delimiter for the stream reader ? Is it reading the whole line every time, or up to the | ?

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[cecildt]

I'm reading a whole line into a temp string and use the '|' tag to divide the string into column values. When I read the whole string from the file the '|' tag is missing. So, I cannot divide the string up. thanx