Input files

Im a major newbie who is also self taught and has never read a book on vb. I was looking through a game the other day and found this-

"Open filename for input as #1" :confused: :confused: :confused

I would like to incorperate this into my game, but i don't know how. I would go to the help file, but it doesn't work on my piece of c**p computer.

Help me out.

well all it does is openening a file in Input mode, and giving it a number for the read and write methods.

Open "text.txt" For Input As #1
Input #1, String
Close #1
will give you the first entry into the variable String for example