opening a text file from the bin folder and displaying in a listbox

Hi, Ohh... Anyway no problems. If you still have any other doubts, just post in the forums. Cheers.

the problem was the controlchars.newline it was making it do that..thanks for your help..i appreciate it

Hi, By the way, it is in C#. I hope you don't mind. It is pretty straightforward. Cheers.

Hi, I think you do not need to do this. Before: programslistbox.Items.Add(strname & ControlChars.NewLine) After: programslistbox.Items.Add(strname) My own solution: 1st way:(no formating) ---------------------------- private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { StreamReader sReader = File.OpenText("test.txt"); string extractData = sReader.ReadToEnd(); listBox1.Items.Add(extractData); sReader.Close(); } 2nd way:(with formatting) ------------------------------ private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { StreamReader sReader = File.OpenText("test.txt"); string extractData = null; while ((extractData = sReader.ReadLine()) != null) listBox1.Items.Add(extractData); sReader.Close(); } test.txt (sample readme file) --------------------------------- Hello there, This is a test program for admiralspock. Hope it helps. Cheers. Regards, Chua Wen Ching ---------------------------------- Hope it helps. Cheers.

staffradiobutton.Select() FileOpen(1, "Programs.txt", OpenMode.Input) Do While Not EOF(1) Input(1, strname) programslistbox.Items.Add(strname & ControlChars.NewLine) Loop FileClose(1) (the staffradiobutton.select()) is for something else so dont worry about that..this is all i have for the code...i dont understand why its doing what it does :)

Hi, Can you show me the sample code? So i can identify your problems. Only the part on reading the file and then display on the listbox. Cheers.

another problem, it does show up but it leaves a [] [] thing after the words........got any ideas on how to remove that?

thank you very much..works perfectly :)

Hi, You can look into ListBox1.Items.Add or AddRange instead of using Text.. Cheers.