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Working with textfiles (Open etc)

'open a textfile on disk into a textbox
'make a Form with a TextBox (multiline = True)
'and two commandbuttons

'put the next code on the appropiate places
Sub Command1_Click()
	Call GetFile("c:\autoexec.bat")
End Sub

Private sub GetFile(FileName$)
	Dim nFilenumber%
    	Dim tmpLine$

	Text1.Text = ""
	nFilenumber = FreeFile
    	Open FileName$ For input as #nFilenumber
        Do While Not EOF(nFileNumber)
            	Input #nFileNumber, tmpLine
		Text1.Text = Text1.Text & tmpline
	Loop
	Close #nFileNumber
End Sub

'save the content of a textbox into a file on disk

Sub Command2_Click()
	Dim answer$
	
	answer$ = InputBox("Which name will you give the file?")
	If answer$="" then Exit Sub
	Call SaveFile(answer$)
End Sub

Private sub SaveFile(FileName$)
	Dim nFilenumber%

	nFilenumber = FreeFile
    	Open FileName$ For Output as #nFilenumber
	Print #nFileNumber, Text1.Text
	Close #nFileNumber
End Sub

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