Basic I/O To Files

Basically there are 3 different methods for reading and writing to files.

Input
This is for reading text from files,

Code:


Dim Data As String 'Declares a variable to hold the data you get from file
Open "C:\new.txt" For input as #1'open it for input
input #1,Data
Close #1'Finally close the file once youve finished reading from it
Call Msgbox(Data)'Display data in a file


That would read one line from the file
To read the whole thing use

Code:


Dim Data,allData As String 'Declares a variable to hold the data you get from file
Open "C:\new.txt" For input as #1'open it for input
do until EOF(1)'Loop until EOF(end of file) = true (or 1)
input #1,Data
alldata = alldata & Data
loop
Close #1'Finally close the file once youve finished reading from it
Call Msgbox(allData)'Display data in a file


Output

Out put completely erases a file and replaces it with your data

Code:

Open "C:\File.txt" for output as #1,
Print #1,yourvar
close #1


Append

Instead of over writing the file with append you can add to it

Code:

Open "File.txt" for append as #1
print #1,data
close #1


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