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pminogue
pminogue

Reputation: 143

Removing CR/LF at end of file in VB.net

I've searched for a solution to this, but any I've found are either doing much more than I need or are not exactly what I want.

I have files I want to append to. I need to append to the end of the last line but they all have a carriage return and so I'll end up appending to the new line if I just append as normal.

All I want is to make a subroutine that takes a file path and removes the CR/LF at the end of it, no more, no less. Any help pointing me at a solution to this would be appreciated. I'm surprised there isn't a built in function to do this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2599

Answers (2)

Alex B.
Alex B.

Reputation: 2167

    Dim crString = Environment.NewLine '= vbCrLf
    Dim crBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(crString)
    Dim bytesRead(crBytes.Length -  1) as Byte
    Dim iOffset As Integer = 0
    Dim stringRead As String 

    Using fs = File.Open("G:\test.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite)      
        While iOffset < fs.Length    
            fs.Seek(- (crBytes.Length + iOffset), SeekOrigin.End)
            fs.Read(bytesRead,0, crBytes.Length)
            stringRead = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytesRead)
            If stringRead = crString Then
                fs.SetLength(fs.Length - (crBytes.Length  * iOffset + 1))
                Exit While
             End If
            iOffset += 1
        End While
    End Using

I open the text file as FileStream and set its position to the end of the file - length of the carriage return string.

I then read the current bytes while decreasing the offset until I found a carriage return or the eof has been reached.

If a CR has been found I remove it and everything what comes after. If you don´t want that just remove the loop and check the eof only. But there could be some vbNullString at the eof that´s why I´m using the loop.

Please note that I used UTF8 encoding in my example. If you have other encodings you have to adapt it accordingly.

test.txt before run:

Before

test.txt after code snippet run:

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EDIT: fs.SetLength part was wrong in case of last character in file was not a CR.

Upvotes: 3

OSKM
OSKM

Reputation: 728

I have found String.Replace(ControlChars.CrLf.ToCharArray(),"") works.

Probably better ways to do it as well!

Upvotes: 0

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