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With the exception of object variables, you can use any variable type.</paragraph> 48*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153144" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 49*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleRandomAccess</paragraph> 50*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph> 51*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155307" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sText As Variant REM Must be a variant</paragraph> 52*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3152577" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim aFile As String</paragraph> 53*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph> 54*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154490" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 55*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150418" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph> 56*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149411" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Seek #iNumber,1 REM Position at beginning</paragraph> 57*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153158" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,, "This is the first line of text" REM Fill line with text</paragraph> 58*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148457" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,, "This is the second line of text"</paragraph> 59*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150715" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,, "This is the third line of text"</paragraph> 60*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153836" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Seek #iNumber,2</paragraph> 61*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150327" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Get #iNumber,,sText</paragraph> 62*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153707" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print sText</paragraph> 63*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 64*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153715" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 65*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154256" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph> 66*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147340" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph> 67*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155938" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,,"This is a new text"</paragraph> 68*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Get #iNumber,1,sText</paragraph> 69*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147361" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph> 70*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146916" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,20,"This is the text in record 20"</paragraph> 71*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149259" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print Lof(#iNumber)</paragraph> 72*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153790" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 73*b5f39a4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155606" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end sub</paragraph> 74cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 75cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 76