Trim fields in Text File

Hi

I have a text file with 116 fields separated by commas. How would I open the text file and trim all white spaces from each field and then close file?

Thanks

You can Use String.Split function to get array of all string with whitespace than trim that string and Use String.Join function to get comma seperated string

than store it in file

Even simpler would be to run a regex replace on your textfile after readingit.

Regex.Replace(strInput, "\s+", " ")

Trouble updating

I have a Access database with 2 text fields. I'm reading one field into a text box, changing the value in the textbox and attempting to update the database with the new value. The page loads fine with the correct value in the textbox, but I'm getting a error on the Update statement. Below is the code. Any suggestions?

Sub LoadInventory()
Connect()
Dim strQuery As String = "SELECT Type, Number FROM Inventory WHERE type = 'squares'"

Dim dbComm As New OLEDBCommand(strQuery, objConnection)
Dim reader As OLEDBDataReader = dbComm.ExecuteReader()

reader.Read()
txtAmount.Text = reader.GetString(1)

reader.Close()
Disconnect()
End Sub

Sub btnChange_Click(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal E As EventArgs)
UpdateInventory()
LoadInventory()
End Sub

Private Sub UpdateInventory()
Dim strSQL As String = "UPDATE Inventory SET Number = " & txtAmount.Text & " WHERE Type = 'squares'"
Connect()
Dim dbComm As New OLEDBCommand(strSQL, objConnection)
dbComm.ExecuteNonQuery()
Disconnect()
End Subinstead of

Dim strSQL As String = "UPDATE Inventory SET Number = " & txtAmount.Text & " WHERE Type = 'squares'"

try this

Dim strSQL As String = "UPDATE Inventory SET Number = " & Convert.ToInt32(txtAmount.Text) & " WHERE Type = 'squares'"

Jeff
Jeff,

Thanks for your reply. That however didn't work. Could it be the way I have my access database setup?

Jeremy
Jeff,

Does it work when you try putting in a static value for txtAmount.Text such as this:

"UPDATE Inventory SET Number =1 WHERE Type='squares'"

If it does work like that, then try doing this:

Try
 Dim dbComm As New OLEDBCommand(strSQL, objConnection)
 dbComm.ExecuteNonQuery()
Catch dbException As Exception
 Response.Write(dbException.ToString())
End Try

Tell us what the exception is. Besides, it is always good practice anyway to put database queries inside a try statement - there are just way too many things that could go wrong to not catch those errors.

Aaron