VB6 Text files

[Bob Wilkin]

I need to write a vb script that will extract a string from a text file. The only problem is that I'm having trouble loading the text file. I can get the string easily enough with len() and mid() statements, but how the *censored* do you load or open a text file inside runtime?

[Joleen]

Use the Open dialog control.

[mims1979]

you need to use the open command.

Here are a couple examples:

open file, read 1st line into variable "data"

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Open (App.Path & "\filename.txt") For Input As #1
Line Input #1, Data
Close #1
msgbox data


Open file, run through the file doing something to each line:

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Open (App.Path & "\filename.txt") For Input As #2
Do Until EOF(2)
 Line Input #2, grpfor
 msgbox grpfor
Loop
Close #2