FileSystemObject:OpenTextFile Method

FileSystemObject:OpenTextFile Method

Description :

This function opens a file and returns a TextStream object and later you can use that TextStream object to perform various activities on that file like reading or writing

Format :

objectOfFileSystemObject. OpenTextFile(filename[, iomode[, create[, format]]])

Arguments: 

• objectOfFileSystemObject : FileSystemObject
• filename:
  • Mandatory
  • Type: String
  • File needs to be opened.

• iomode
  • Optional
  • Constants:

    • Constant	Value	Description
      ForReading	1	Open a file for reading only. You can't write to this file.
      ForWriting	2	Open a file for writing.
      ForAppending	8	Open a file and write to the end of the file.

• Create
  • Optional
  • Type: Boolean ( True: creates a new file with the name provided if file doesn’t   exist,       False : file is not created if not exist)
• format
  • Optional
  • Tristate values indicate the format of the opened file. If not given, it will be opened in ASCII

  • TristateUseDefault	-2	Opens the file using the system default.
    TristateTrue	-1	Opens the file as Unicode.
    TristateFalse	0	Opens the file as ASCII

Open a text file:
Open a text file from specific location and returns a TextStreamObject

Method Name: OpenTextFile

Function FnOpenTextFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set filetxt = fso. OpenTextFile ("c:\sample.txt",1, True)

 'So you can use this TextStreamObject for further operations on that text file like Writing something in it or closing it.

MyFile.WriteLine("Sample Text in text file")

MyFile.Close

End Function

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