Reading from an awkward file...Thanks

[MartinLiss]

Then what you want to do is to download MSXML4 from Microsoft and install it. You may already have MSXML2 or 3 on your PC and they will work but 4 is better. Then using commands like selectNodes you will be able to get at the data you need. There are a lot of examples in this forum and the XML forum that should help you, and/or you can ask questions once you get started.

[moeur]

to read it into one variable

Dim FileLen As Integer
Dim inVar As String
Open "C:\Persist.data" For Binary As #1
FileLen = LOF(1)
inVar = String(FileLen, 0)
Get #1, , inVar
Close #1
Debug.Print inVar