hi
From a pipe separated file i want to read first set of data before first pipe. I m able to do this bt data from all the lines should be read.. hw to loop this. I tried bt getting an error cannot convert type bool to string and string to bool.

You are probably doing something like

if(stringvalue = "something")
{
}
which will throw an error all day because you are setting the value of stringvalue to something. You should be doing something like this:

if(stringvalue == "something")
{
}

this will compile.

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