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[ober0330]

OK, so I don't have my MSDN disks and I can't find it on the net, and the search on here doesn't seem to want to work.

And this should be simple

How do I open a file, replace all double quotes (ie. ") with nothing (ie. ""), and then save that file?

I feel retarded even asking this because it seems like something that should be simple.

[Xa0z]

Did not test this, but I'm pretty sure it works

Dim Path as string, f as integer, temp as string
Path = "C:\Target.txt"
f = freefile
Open path For Binary As #f
temp = Space(LOF(f))    'Create a buffer for the file
Get #f,,temp                'Load the textfile into the buffer
temp = Replace(temp," ","")     'replace the space by nothing
Close #f                                    'close the file and kill it.
Kill path                                     'This because the previous data is longer then this data
Open path For Binary as #f
Put #f,,temp                'Write the data into the file and close it once again
Close #f

[ober0330]

that didn't seem to work... i think the problem is that that code replaces spaces... and i need to replace quotes around words. is there an escape character?

it doesn't like it when i do this:

temp = Replace(temp, """, "")   'replace the space by nothing

It wants to put another quotation mark somewhere

[Xa0z]

[Xa0z]

Ow sorry, I didn't read your post right :P. Thought you wanted to replace space chars. In that case use:

temp = Replace (temp, chr(34),"")

[ober0330]

ahh... perfect

[KrzyDoug]

I have a similar problem. I have a vb script that automatically sends an email to a predetermined email address over remote smtp. I have one that uses authorazation and one that doesn't. I would like a way to have user input be populated into several fields in this script. Just something as simple as "What is your email address?" and it enters the user input into the proper line of the script. There are about 6-7 strings I want to modify this way. I'm sure if I can get one done, I can modify it for each line. Any help is greatly appreciated.