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33<topic id="textsbasicshared03020201xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Get Statement [Runtime]</title>
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38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
39<lastedited date="2004-09-01T15:22:37">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
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43<section id="get">
44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154927"><bookmark_value>Get statement</bookmark_value>
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46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154927" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020201.xhp">Get Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Reads a record from a relative file, or a sequence of bytes from a binary file, into a variable.</paragraph>
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49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154346" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020204.xhp" name="PUT"><item type="literal">PUT</item></link> Statement</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150358" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="4">Syntax:</paragraph>
51<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">Get [#] FileNumber As Integer, [Position], Variable</paragraph>
52<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Parameters:</paragraph>
53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150448" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">
54<emph>FileNumber:</emph> Any integer expression that determines the file number.</paragraph>
55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154684" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">
56<emph>Position:</emph> For files opened in Random mode, <emph>Position</emph> is the number of the record that you want to read.</paragraph>
57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">For files opened in Binary mode, <emph>Position</emph> is the byte position in the file where the reading starts.</paragraph>
58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">If <emph>Position</emph> is omitted, the current position or the current data record of the file is used.</paragraph>
59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149484" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Variable: Name of the variable to be read. With the exception of object variables, you can use any variable type.</paragraph>
60<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153144" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="12">Example:</paragraph>
61<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Sub ExampleRandomAccess</paragraph>
62<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph>
63<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155307" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Dim sText As Variant REM Must be a variant</paragraph>
64<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3152577" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Dim aFile As String</paragraph>
65<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph>
66<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154490" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph>
67<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150418" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph>
68<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149411" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Seek #iNumber,1 REM Position at beginning</paragraph>
69<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153158" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">Put #iNumber,, "This is the first line of text" REM Fill line with text</paragraph>
70<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148457" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">Put #iNumber,, "This is the second line of text"</paragraph>
71<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150715" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">Put #iNumber,, "This is the third line of text"</paragraph>
72<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153836" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Seek #iNumber,2</paragraph>
73<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150327" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Get #iNumber,,sText</paragraph>
74<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153707" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">Print sText</paragraph>
75<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">Close #iNumber</paragraph>
76<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153715" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="30">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph>
77<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154256" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph>
78<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147340" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph>
79<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155938" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="33">Put #iNumber,,"This is a new text"</paragraph>
80<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">Get #iNumber,1,sText</paragraph>
81<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147361" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="35">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph>
82<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146916" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="36">Put #iNumber,20,"This is the text in record 20"</paragraph>
83<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149259" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="37">Print Lof(#iNumber)</paragraph>
84<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153790" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="38">Close #iNumber</paragraph>
85<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155606" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="40">end sub</paragraph>
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