I have a file customer.txt, i write some data 2 it
i have 2 read from it incase a client wants to view their details.
I use their account number as the primary key,so i get it form the user, open up my file for reading.
How do i search for this record in the file?

Thanks
programmed

well programmed ,

in what format do you write the data into the text ... do you write the entire object ... bcoz how you read and search a file depends very much on how u write the file ... so tell me how have you written the data to the file and may be then i can help ..

Sudhan