importing file contents into a variable

[wengang]

Hi all.
I've been using this code for years to get a file's contents into a variable:

Open strFile For Input As #1
strX = ""
Do Until EOF(1) = True
Line Input #1, x
strX = strX & x
Loop
Close #1

Is there a faster way?

I'm moving a lot of files in a loop, so every second counts.
Thanks.

[wengang]

I guess I forgot about this:

strX = Input(LOF(1), #1)


anything faster than this?

[wengang]

also,
for downloading html files,
anything faster than this:

Public 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, LocalFilename) As Boolean
Dim lngRetVal As Long
lngRetVal = URLDownloadToFile(0, URL, LocalFilename, 0, 0)
If lngRetVal = 0 Then DownloadFile = True
End Function

[Code Doc]

To my knowledge, this is the fastest possible way:

Dim MyData As String
Open "MyTextFile.Txt" For Binary As #1
MyData = Space$(LOF(1))
Get #1, , MyData
Close #1

MyData now contains all of the file as a string variable.

[Logophobic]

I'm moving a lot of files in a loop, so every second counts.

Moving files? As in reading a file, writing the data (unchanged) to a new file, then deleting the old file? If so, try the Name statement:

Name oldpathname As newpathname

[seenu_1st]

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