ReadLine Method

Reads an entire line (up to, but not including, the newline character) from a TextStream file and returns the resulting string.

object.ReadLine

The object argument is always the name of a TextStream object.

Remarks

The following example shows how to use the ReadLine method to read a line from a TextStream file and return the string:

Function ReadLineTextFile
   Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
   Dim fso, MyFile
   Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   Set MyFile = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
   MyFile.WriteLine "Hello world!"
   MyFile.WriteLine "The quick brown fox"
   MyFile.Close
   Set MyFile = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)
   ReadLineTextFile = MyFile.ReadLine    ' Returns "Hello world!"
End Function

See Also

Close Method | Read Method | ReadAll Method | Skip Method | SkipLine Method | Write Method | WriteLine Method | WriteBlankLines Method

Applies To: TextStream Object