title: reading file into an array
body: <p>i have a text file with the following data:</p>
  
  <p>Calculated Concentrations<br>
      30.55   73.48   298.25  27.39   40.98   11.21   99.22   33.46   73.99   12.18   30.7
  50  28.4    34.33   29.55   70.48   43.09   28.54   50.78   9.68    62.03   63.18   28.4
  100 23.83   68.65   10.93   ??????  31.42   8.16    24.97   8.3 114.97  34.92   15.53
  200 32.15   29.98   23.69   ??????  23.41   33.6    92.03   32.73   13.58   58.44   94.61
  400 159.98  18.05   50.94   37.12   15.25   46.75   315.22  69.98   13.58   ??????  58.77
  208.82  11.07   38.15   86.31   35.5    41.88   28.25   5.39    40.83   29.98   54.42   69.48
  36.09   13.16   23.26   19.31   147.56  31.86   6.77    19.45   33.6    32.87   205.47  134.21
  ??????  17.35   9.96    58.61   13.44   23.97   22.13   145.17  29.55   26.54   37.12   198.33</p>
  
  <p>and i would like to load this data into an array.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>how do i enable the user to open a file of his choosing in vb.net?</li>
  <li>how do i read these values into an array in vb.net?</li>
  </ol>
  
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  <p>i would like to clarify that what person-b has suggested works very very well. specifically the fields = calculationText.split(" ") was exactly what i needed; however, my next issue is the following. the data above is actually in this format:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://pastebin.com/d29ae565b" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/d29ae565b</a></p>
  
  <p>where the i need the first value to be 0, then 50, then 100 etc. and i need it to read columns from left to right. the problem is that the values are not reading into the array in this manner. the values are actually reading like this: 6.65, 84.22, ????, 35.15. please help!</p>