open and read a text file

I have a text file with one line in it (I can also make it have one word) I need to write a VB program that will read this file every 5 seconds and based on the word inside (start or stop) execute a DDE connection. I can do the DDE part but I don’t know how to read the file, search for the word and execute the DDE commands based on the word and get it to run every 5 seconds. Any help would be great. Thanks

refer

http://vblib.virtualave.net

there is a function call ReadFileStr which read the content of the file into a string variable,

hope this help.

Open "c:\temp\temp.txt" For Input As #1 'to read from
Do While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, sLine
'do something with the strng sLine
Loop
Close #1



Iouri Boutchkine
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Nice and swift. Of course I am already out of votes...


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