I know how to read line by line from a txt file on my computer, but what about reading line by line of a txt file on a website? (www.website.com/example.txt)
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I know how to read line by line from a txt file on my computer, but what about reading line by line of a txt file on a website? (www.website.com/example.txt)
Hia Josh,
just downlod that file to your Hard Drive and read it as usual.
:DCode:Private Declare Function URLDownloadToFile Lib "urlmon" Alias "URLDownloadToFileA" (ByVal pCaller As Long, ByVal szURL As String, ByVal szFileName As String, ByVal dwReserved As Long, ByVal lpfnCB As Long) As Long
Public Function DownloadFile(URL As String, LocalFilename As String) As Boolean
Dim lngRetVal As Long
lngRetVal = URLDownloadToFile(0, URL, LocalFilename, 0, 0)
If lngRetVal = 0 Then DownloadFile = True
End Function
Private Sub Form_Load()
'example by Matthew Gates ([email protected])
DownloadFile "www.website.com/example.txt", "c:\example.txt"
End Sub