appending an entire file..

[CAPHS]

Hello,
Does anyone know a way to append an ENTIRE file to another without having to open it and cycle through each and every character and appending them?

[Jop]

hmmm..

without having to open it and cycle through each and every character and appending them?

What the hell do you want man

[Shrog]

This may sound like a silly question, but why don't you like the idea of loading the file into a string?

As far as I know, a string can hold up to 2 Gigs of data. That can handle a very large file. And even if the file is bigger than that, why not just split it up into two or more parts (read only half the file at a time).

I cannot imagine a user waiting for a 2Gig file to be read and written byte by byte.

Just askin'
Shrog

[Jop]

You may want to look at this thread for more info about reading very large textfiles

http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=34646

[jbart]

Not sure if this is possible, but surely someone knows. From VB, could you execute the DOS "COPY" command to copy 2 files into a third file? That would append the two files together.

In DOS: COPY c:\file1.txt + c:\file2.txt c:\file3.txt

[jbart]

I did some searching around, and you can Shell the DOS Copy command to copy 2 files into a third file.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Shell ("command.com /c  copy c:\file1.txt + c:\file2.txt c:\file3.txt")
End Sub

So, you could use this to append 2 files together without having to open them in VB.

[HeSaidJoe]

Jop:
HeSaidJoe, you're code is somewhat sloppy (in hurry? tired?
All of the above, but # is not a requirement.
If you tested my code you know it works with or without #

[Jop]

hehe sorry, I didn't knew that...

But try to be consequent, use either FreeFile OR #1.
Use either #intNum OR intNum

'cause it's kinda confusing (I'm tired too ya know )

Bye.

[kedaman]

Hehe, you forgot one thing though, you used Get #1 not Get #intnum

The compromise between byte by byte and whole file is of course reading in chunks

[HeSaidJoe]

kedaman:
Smart A__ LOL
Later, going to get someone to slap me and wake me up!

[kedaman]

Hehe, i'm used to be attacked myself for that kinds of trivial stuff, especially when it gets as late as 6:00am or so

[Jop]

Hey that's what I said hehe

My post wasn't meant as an attack, just a correction.

[kedaman]

Were just like immitating the Dennis-Wrenn style

That means Smart Ass time!

[Jop]

hmm... haven't seen him in a while... DENNIS COME BACK!