Output in .txt files

[Patrice Bourdages]

Hello you guru's :-)

I need a little help with this one.

I'm creating a program that will "create" or write program headers, body and footer.

It gets complicated when I want to "write out" in ASCII format. I would need a bunch of Sub to write info in those ASCII files.

Ex.: I'm creating a .txt file that will contain the code required to run a particular task.

private sub header
' open output file (in write mode)
' start the process
print "/*************************************************/"
print "* Program..: " & strProgramFile
print "*"
print "* Author...: " & strAuthor
print "*"
print "* Date.....: " & strCreationDate
print "/************************************************/;"
' close the output file for the moment
end sub

private Sub Body
' re-open the output file (in append mode)
' do my output stuff
' close the output file for the moment
end sub

etc...

I simply don't know how to create that .txt file. Could someone proivde me the basic stuff so that I could go on.

Sincerely,

Patrice :-)

[delker]

To create a text file, just open it in output mode. If the file does not exist, it is created, if it does exist, it is overwritten.

Open "MyFile.txt" for Output As #1

'Then print to the file:
Print #1, "Text to print"

'When you're done, close the file:
Close #1

[Negative0]

Try This:

Private Sub Form_Load()
Open "C:\test.txt" For Output Shared As #1
Print #1, "HI"
Close #1
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Click()
Open "C:\test.txt" For Append Shared As #1
Print #1, "HI"
Close #1
End Sub

Hope this helps

[Patrice Bourdages]

Thank you very much you guys...

Wasn't looking at the right place...

Sincerely yours,

Patrice :-)