Put statement in VB.NET

Hello,

I'm trying to learn VB.NET after learning VB6. I have a small program that uses Put to write variables to a file.

I've learned about StreamWriter and BinaryWriter in VB.NET but am seemingly unable to write variants to a file using these (the way I did with Put). Is there any way to do this in VB.Net?

Thanks for any help.

- Jake

first of all instead of variant u use the object in .net..to convert an object to string you can do yourVar.ToString()

hope this helps

thanks for the advice.

here's the situation, you tell me if your idea should work:

I have a byte array with values over 256. I can't write those using the binary writer because it doesn't like those bytes that are over 256.

Here's the code that creates the bytes over 256:

Code:

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        For K = 0 To ((sArrayLength - rasSt) - 100)
            Bt1 = sRas(K) And &HF
            Bt2 = (sRas(K) And &HF0) \ 16
            tRas(K) = Bt2 Or (Bt1 * 256)
        Next K

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tRas is a byte array but it ends up containing bytes with values like 717 "2CD".

Thanks for any more help..

- J

A byte can only hold 256 different values. 2 ^ 8 =256. Each element of a byte array therefore could only hold a value between 0 and 255.

What you're describing seems implausible.

I agree completely, I couldn't believe my own eyes.

Anyway I found a workaround.

- J