Reading and Writing to/from files in the same operation [RESOLVED]

Using the Open statement I can open text files for reading from, or writing to but not at the same time. Does anyone know how?

I want to scan the lines of an existing text file and when I find certain things, I want to insert new lines in the appropriate places.

You can open it for Binary, and use Put and Get.

"Put" and "Get"?

VB doesn't recognise them and I can't find any reference to them in my MSDN library.

We are talking VB here, aren't we?

This is my VB6 code using PUT

VB Code:

DatNr = FreeFile
DateiName = ReplayDateiPfad + "\Repl" + ReplayDatei + ".rp2"
Open DateiName For Binary As DatNr
Put DatNr, 1, Playtime
l = Seek(DatNr)
Put DatNr, i + 1, ChangeTime

They are statements.

VB Code:

Dim s As String
 
    s = Space$(5)
 
Open "c:\test.txt" For Input As #1
    Get #1,,s 'Should get 5 bytes of text
    Put #1,,"Test" 'Should write "Test" where the marker is positioned
Close #1

Its been a while since I've used them, I think that is right.

Yeah thanks. :)

I see what you mean now.

It's just a nightmare finding what you want in the MSDN library sometimes... :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by simonm
It's just a nightmare finding what you want in the MSDN library sometimes... :rolleyes:

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It works perfectly fine...as long as you know exactly what you want and where to find it.

;)