Recording Info in Text File from VB Form

[KellyStee]

I have a form with text boxes, check boxes, toggle buttons and so forth and before the form is reset, I want the user to be able to record the results in a text file that is saved on their hard drive. I've checked out MSDN on this subject and haven't found much about how to go about doing this. I did find one article, "Interacting with Data in an ASCII Text File" but it seems to deal more with an ASCII delimited text file and accessing and updating a recordset.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!
Kelly

 

[AdamIT]

Try using the old Open statement:

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Open "c:\output.txt" For Output As #1

Write #1, Text1.Text, Check1.Value, .......

Close #1

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Open "c:\output.txt" For Input As #1

Input #1, Text1.Text, Check1.Value, .......

Close #1

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Thats just a basic shell, you would obviously want to add some validation and value checking first.

-Adam-

 

[KellyStee]

Thanks, Adam! That works for me. I wasn't familiar with the Open function. One question I have related to my project is how do I append to an existing file? I need to create a new file if the specified file name doesn't already exist, and I need to append to the file, if it does already exist.

Thanks!
Kelly

 

[JustinEzequiel]

Open "c:\output.txt" For Append As #1