Input From text files

The text file that i am inputing from looks like this

11111de|Machine|Whatever|ok

Open "TEXTFILE" For Input As #1
Input #1, line1

The string i get for line1 is 11111

The string that i want to get is (the whole line) 11111de|Machine|Whatever|ok

I know it probaly has something to do with the pipe character ("|") please help.

Mark

Hi,

Try:

Line Input#1,line1

From Help.

Quote:

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Line Input # Statement

Reads a single line from an open sequential file and assigns it to a String variable.

Syntax

Line Input #filenumber, varname

The Line Input # statement syntax has these parts:

Part Description

filenumber Required. Any valid file number.
varname Required. Valid Variant or String variable name.


Remarks

Data read with Line Input # is usually written from a file with Print #.
The Line Input # statement reads from a file one character at a time until it encounters a carriage return (Chr(13)) or carriage return–linefeed (Chr(13) + Chr(10)) sequence. Carriage return–linefeed sequences are skipped rather than appended to the character string.

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Al.

hmmm not sure, but maybe try LINE INPUT #1, etc..(if that is even valid in VB... works in qbasic :)

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Rapmaster

hehe Al... I guess we had the same idea :)

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Rapmaster

try the Line Input #1 statement instead

hehe 3 people posting the same thing at the same time

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Rapmaster

Thanks i appreciate it.

Line Input works great........

Mark