Open a file in VB

[Mungovan]

Hi,
I have a standard If statement in one of my subs. I want the application to open a file when one of these conditions of meet. What is this command e.g:

open = c:/myFile ???

Thanks,
D

 

[TomKane]

Try this:

OPEN file$ [FOR mode] [ACCESS access] [lock] AS [#]filenumber% [LEN=reclen%]

file$ The name of the file or device. The file name may include a drive and path.

mode One of the following file modes: APPEND,
BINARY, INPUT, OUTPUT, or RANDOM.

access In network environments, specifies whether
the file is opened for READ, WRITE, or READ
WRITE access.

lock Specifies the file locking in network
environments:
SHARED, LOCK READ, LOCK WRITE, LOCK READ
WRITE.

filenumber A number in the range 1 through 255 that
identifies the file while it is open.

reclen For random-access files, the record length
(default is 128 bytes). For sequential
files, the number of characters buffered
(default is 512 bytes).

Example:

n$ = "C:\README.TXT"
OPEN n$ FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1, "This is saved to the file."
CLOSE #1

OPEN n$ FOR INPUT AS #1
INPUT #1, a$
MsgBox "Read from file: " & a$
CLOSE #1

 

[Mungovan]

Thanks,

I use the command
Open "C:\Testing" For Random As #5

but nothing happens, even though the file C:\Testing
does exist at that location. The application doesn't even give an error??


Any ideas??
Thanks
D

 

[LazyMe]

By opening you mean, showing its contents to the user?

You'll have to shell it, if that's the case...

Greetings,
Rick

 

[Mungovan]

Yes, I need to show its contents to the user. i.e open a word file.

Any ideas??

Thanks,
D

 

[LazyMe]

See the VB shell function, the ShellExecute API or the CreateProcess API....

Greetings,
Rick

 

[Mungovan]

Hi,

Basically, all I need to do is to get VB to open a web-page when a certain condition is true i.e:


If TRUE
Open web site

http://www.whatever.com

Else
Send an error message

 

[Hypetia]

Check thread222-475867.