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The file must have been opened in advance with the Open statement using the key word INPUT.</paragraph> 43*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151119" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>var:</emph> The name of the variable that stores the result.</paragraph> 44*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150010" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">With the <emph>Line Input#</emph> statement, you can read strings from an open file into a variable. String variables are read line-by-line up to the first carriage return (Asc=13) or linefeed (Asc=10). Line end marks are not included in the resulting string.</paragraph> 45*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3163711" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 46*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145271" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleWorkWithAFile</paragraph> 47*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156444" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph> 48*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147349" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sLine As String</paragraph> 49*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim aFile As String</paragraph> 50*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147436" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sMsg as String</paragraph> 51*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154730" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph> 52*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145647" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 53*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Open aFile For Output As #iNumber</paragraph> 54*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print #iNumber, "This is a line of text"</paragraph> 55*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153415" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print #iNumber, "This is another line of text"</paragraph> 56*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146969" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 57*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154482" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 58*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150321" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Open aFile For Input As iNumber</paragraph> 59*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155443" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">While not eof(iNumber)</paragraph> 60*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Line Input #iNumber, sLine</paragraph> 61*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156382" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">If sLine <>"" then</paragraph> 62*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147338" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sMsg = sMsg & sLine & chr(13)</paragraph> 63*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147362" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end if</paragraph> 64*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155333" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">wend</paragraph> 65*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153965" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 66*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147345" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Msgbox sMsg</paragraph> 67*3a73b312Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149257" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 70