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Jamie Ouellette
Jamie Ouellette

Reputation: 17

How to only read the second line of a text fetched from a website in VB.Net

I am fetching 3 line of text from a website with my vb.net application and i only want to show the second line in my my label when i press a button. The code i currently have show me all the 3 lines. How can i only display the 2nd line. 

Dim webAddress As String = "Website"

    Dim reader As StreamReader
    Dim request As WebRequest
    Dim response As WebResponse
    Dim data As String = ""

    Try
        request = WebRequest.Create(webAddress)
        request.Timeout = 30000
        response = request.GetResponse()
        reader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
        data = reader.ReadToEnd
    Catch ex As Exception
        MsgBox(ex.Message)
    End Try

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1597

Answers (2)

wborgsm
wborgsm

Reputation: 186

Read individual lines:

reader.ReadLine() 'read and discard the first line
data = reader.ReadLine() 'read the line you want
reader.ReadToEnd 'read and discard the rest

Upvotes: 0

Prahlad Yeri
Prahlad Yeri

Reputation: 3663

You may do this after ReadToEnd:

Label1.Text = Split(data, VBCrLf)(1)

Upvotes: 1

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