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27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Put Statement [Runtime]</title>
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32<section id="put">
33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150360">
34<bookmark_value>Put statement</bookmark_value>
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36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150360" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020204.xhp" name="Put Statement [Runtime]">Put Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Writes a record to a relative file or a sequence of bytes to a binary file.</paragraph>
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39<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156281" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020201.xhp" name="Get"><item type="literal">Get</item></link> statement</paragraph>
40<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="4">Syntax:</paragraph>
41<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155132" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">Put [#] FileNumber As Integer, [position], Variable</paragraph>
42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153190" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Parameters:</paragraph>
43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146120" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">
44<emph>FileNumber:</emph> Any integer expression that defines the file that you want to write to.</paragraph>
45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155411" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">
46<emph>Position:</emph> For relative files (random access files), the number of the record that you want to write.</paragraph>
47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">For binary files (binary access), the position of the byte in the file where you want to start writing.</paragraph>
48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153729" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">
49<emph>Variable:</emph> Name of the variable that you want to write to the file.</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146974" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Note for relative files: If the contents of this variable does not match the length of the record that is specified in the <emph>Len</emph> clause of the <emph>Open</emph> statement, the space between the end of the newly written record and the next record is padded with existing data from the file that you are writing to.</paragraph>
51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155855" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Note for binary files: The contents of the variables are written to the specified position, and the file pointer is inserted directly after the last byte. No space is left between the records.</paragraph>
52<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154491" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="13">Example:</paragraph>
53<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Sub ExampleRandomAccess</paragraph>
54<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph>
55<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154729" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Dim sText As Variant REM Must be a variant type</paragraph>
56<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156286" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Dim aFile As String</paragraph>
57<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149400" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph>
58<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph>
59<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150330" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph>
60<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156278" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">Seek #iNumber,1 REM Position to start writing</paragraph>
61<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153711" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">Put #iNumber,, "This is the first line of text" REM Fill line with text</paragraph>
62<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155446" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">Put #iNumber,, "This is the second line of text"</paragraph>
63<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154255" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Put #iNumber,, "This is the third line of text"</paragraph>
64<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150045" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Seek #iNumber,2</paragraph>
65<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145149" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">Get #iNumber,,sText</paragraph>
66<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">Print sText</paragraph>
67<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3163806" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">Close #iNumber</paragraph>
68<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149568" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph>
69<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155607" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph>
70<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154022" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="33">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph>
71<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150940" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">Put #iNumber,,"This is new text"</paragraph>
72<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146132" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="35">Get #iNumber,1,sText</paragraph>
73<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154198" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="36">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph>
74<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3159102" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="37">Put #iNumber,20,"This is the text in record 20"</paragraph>
75<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="38">Print Lof(#iNumber)</paragraph>
76<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3151277" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="39">Close #iNumber</paragraph>
77<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="41">end sub</paragraph>
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