Skip Method

Skips a specified number of characters when reading a TextStream file.

object.Skip(characters)

Arguments

object

Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.

characters

Required. Number of characters to skip when reading a file.

Remarks

Skipped characters are discarded.

The following example uses the Skip method to skip the first six characters before reading from a text file:

Function SkipTextFile
   Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
   Dim fso, f
   Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
   f.Write "Hello world!"
   Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)
   f.Skip(6)
   SkipTextFile =   f.ReadLine
End Function

See Also

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

Applies To: TextStream Object