Notepad question

[Lieu]

Hello All,

My question is:

Is there a way to open up the file (Notepad), and do the search for a certain word and then change it to some different word ???


Thanks,

you can open up a text file that you would normally open in notepad and do pretty much anything you want to it.
look into :

OpenAsTextStream method /file system object/
instr function
mid function


here is the code to open a text file and read a
line from it.

Sub TextStreamTest()
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 3
Const TristateUseDefault = -2, TristateTrue = -1, TristateFalse = 0
Dim fs, f, ts, s
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fs.CreateTextFile "test1.txt" 'Create a file
Set f = fs.GetFile("test1.txt")
Set ts = f.OpenAsTextStream(ForWriting, TristateUseDefault)
ts.Write "Hello World"
ts.Close
Set ts = f.OpenAsTextStream(ForReading, TristateUseDefault)
s = ts.ReadLine
MsgBox s
ts.Close
End Sub


now just figure out how you want to parse the line and replace the data.

[Nitro]

BG!

What is the difference with your method and the regular Open File Output as #1

[Lieu]

Hi BG,

The part of parse the line and replace the data is where I dont know what to do.

Example: I have the following data

[inetinfo]
Disable=1
[services]

I'd like to replace

"Disable=1" TO "Disable=0"

Thank you in advance

nitro,
This way uses the file system object(scrrun.dll)
It has a lot of file system methods, like, Returning file attributes, editing txt files, directory and file commands. it's pretty easy to use and saves a lot of time coding.

lieu,
hold on let me find the code for ya

[Nitro]

Thanks for the clarification buddy!

Have a nice day!

looks like you should be using a .ini file, check this link out, the code is there already.
http://visualbasic.about.com/compute/visualbasic/library/weekly/aa121998.htm

[Lieu]

Thank You very much BG for your information. It works beautifully

Thanks again