Simple way to Read the Whole File?

[cantene]

Dear Friends,
Long time no see. greetings.

I wish to ask a stupid question but I really don't know. Is it the following statement can read the whole file into the string variable Buffer?

Dim buffer as string
Open "c:\temp.txt" For Binary As 1
Get #1,,Buffer
Close 1

By the way, if I wish to set the file pointer to the start, is it the following?

Seek #iFileHandle, 1

Thanks a lot.

[plenderj]

Dim buffer as string 
Open "c:\temp.txt" For Binary As #1
    Get #1,,Buffer 
Close 1

That will read in the whole file yes.

[HeSaidJoe]

Dim buffer as string
Open "c:\temp.txt" For Binary As 1
Get #1,,Buffer
Close 1

'to answer your own question

Debug.Print Buffer

and see what you get.

[cantene]

In fact, I will download some data from the Web. If the data size can be up to 2M or so but I just append the data to a string, will this cause problems to my program.

BufferString=BufferString+ReceivedData


If I run the "Replace" function on such a big string, will it OK?