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No space is left between the records.</paragraph> 49*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154491" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 50*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleRandomAccess</paragraph> 51*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph> 52*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154729" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sText As Variant REM Must be a variant type</paragraph> 53*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156286" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim aFile As String</paragraph> 54*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149400" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph> 55*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 56*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150330" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph> 57*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156278" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Seek #iNumber,1 REM Position to start writing</paragraph> 58*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153711" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,, "This is the first line of text" REM Fill line with text</paragraph> 59*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155446" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,, "This is the second line of text"</paragraph> 60*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154255" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,, "This is the third line of text"</paragraph> 61*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150045" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Seek #iNumber,2</paragraph> 62*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145149" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Get #iNumber,,sText</paragraph> 63*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print sText</paragraph> 64*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3163806" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 65*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149568" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 66*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155607" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph> 67*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154022" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph> 68*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150940" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,,"This is new text"</paragraph> 69*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146132" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Get #iNumber,1,sText</paragraph> 70*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154198" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph> 71*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3159102" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Put #iNumber,20,"This is the text in record 20"</paragraph> 72*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print Lof(#iNumber)</paragraph> 73*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3151277" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 74*3d720da1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end sub</paragraph> 75cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 76cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 77