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If you treat it as a data source then that means the data will be in fields, you just need to loop through your resulting reader and build your html from the data there. Should be pretty simple.

Why can't you use .split? That would be the obvious choice here

Also why do you say can use Mid() Len() and Instr() all of which are old VB functions rather than VB.Net which would be .Substring ...