Strings

[Thorin]

Hey, I'm just wondering how i can make my program read 1 line at a time into a string from either a file or from another text box. Any help would be appreciated. Thanx,
Thorin

[Johnny101]

Well, there are a couple of ways of doing this...
Using VB 5, you would probably do something like this:

Sub ReadFile(fn as string)
dim i as integer
dim sCurrentLine as string

i = FreeFile

Open fn for Output as i
While Not EOF(#i)
Line input #i, sCurrentLine
MsgBox sCurrentLine
Wend

Close i
End Sub




In VB 6:
set a reference to the Microsoft Scripting Runtime then paste this code somewhere:

Sub ReadFile(fn as string)
dim FSO as Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim objReader as Scripting.TextStream

set FSO = new Scripting.FileSystemObject
set objReader = FSO.OpenTextFile(fn,ForReading,false)

While Not objReader.AtEndOfStream
MsgBox objReader.ReadLine
Wend
objReader.Close
set objReader = nothing
set FSO = nothing
End Sub




Or something like that.

Hope that helped,
John


John Pirkey
MCSD
www.ShallowWaterSystems.com