In this paper we shall discuss what exactly VBscript text file reading and writing. We will go through what the name of the WSH object that VBScript uses to open a text file and other things that VBScript does when it comes to code line and such. VBScript is an important tool and can be very powerful to wield once you gain a good grasp of the knowledge it requires you to know.
The name of the WSH object that VBScript uses to read text and or writing data is known as FileSystemObject, within a script FSO will create an object that the user can adjust. User should be warned though with files known as CreateFolder and DeleteFile, because if you were to make a mistake here it could set back a lot of your work while you were writing the code. Lastly if you want to get the text into file you can simply use WriteLine and write.
There are multiple methods that are used within VBScript to read and write lines of code. I will go through a few then give an example of how they are used. A method that is used in order to read a line, or single code is called Create TextFile Method, and what this does is it will create a specified file name and returns a TextStream object that can be used to read from or write the filein order to read a single or multiple there is also Readline Method and ReadAll method. Another method that is used to write is called Write Method, it will write a specified string to a TextStream file. There is also WriteBlanksLines Method, and Writeline Method for a newline of characters or for a string of newline characters. Function WriteLineToFile Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2 Dim fso, f Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True) f.WriteLine "Hello world!" f.WriteLine "VBScript is fun!" Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading) WriteLineToFile = f.ReadAll End Function
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