reading and opening textfile.. Need help...

[rizzie]

Hi,

I am trying to access a text file in vb6, well I have accessed it but it gives me per line result. I need the exact character given a specific position. Is there any way to access the file and return values per character???

Thanks in advance =)

[Killer42]

I am trying to access a text file in vb6, well I have accessed it but it gives me per line result. I need the exact character given a specific position. Is there any way to access the file and return values per character?

Yes. Open the file For Binary rather than For Input. Then use the Get statement to read from it. You can specify the location to read, or it will just continue from where it's up to. The size of the variable you read the data into will determine how much it reads. So if you define a variable as String * 1 for example, you can read one byte at a time.

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[rizzie]

Yes. Open the file For Binary rather than For Input. Then use the Get statement to read from it. You can specify the location to read, or it will just continue from where it's up to. The size of the variable you read the data into will determine how much it reads. So if you define a variable as String * 1 for example, you can read one byte at a time.

Thanks for the quick response... But I do have additional questions.. Can I use Binary File Access given a specific line. To explain it further here is the scenario:

I have this text file...
H5J0001T20071127 -2 0
1BAGICN2101500015063190101500150
SBAGICN01
2 Y 01500000000000000000000000000000
4 Y0000000000000000000000000000000011
H5J0001T20071129000C0
1BAGICN4101500015063190101500150
SBAGICN01

I need to read the line with H as the first character. With that specific line I need to extract the data by reading the character with a given position..
I really appreciate your help... again thank you...

[Killer42]

Oops. Forget binary mode.

Just read line by line, and use the Left() and/or Mid() functions to pull the desired characters out of the text.

[rizzie]

Oops. Forget binary mode.

Just read line by line, and use the Left() and/or Mid() functions to pull the desired characters out of the text.

Ahhh.. yeah. How come I didn't think of that solution? Hehehehe. Thanks for the help...=)

[Killer42]

Ahhh.. yeah. How come I didn't think of that solution? Hehehehe. Thanks for the help...=)

Give it a couple of years - experience makes the difference.

We're always glad to help around here. :)