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The file must have been opened in advance with the Open statement using the key word INPUT.</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151119" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 51<emph>var:</emph> The name of the variable that stores the result.</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150010" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">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> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3163711" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145271" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Sub ExampleWorkWithAFile</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156444" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147349" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim sLine As String</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim aFile As String</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147436" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="36">Dim sMsg as String</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154730" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145647" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Open aFile For Output As #iNumber</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Print #iNumber, "This is a line of text"</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153415" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Print #iNumber, "This is another line of text"</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146969" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154482" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150321" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Open aFile For Input As iNumber</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155443" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">While not eof(iNumber)</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">Line Input #iNumber, sLine</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156382" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">If sLine <>"" then</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147338" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">sMsg = sMsg & sLine & chr(13)</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147362" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">end if</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155333" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">wend</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153965" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="33">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 74<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147345" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="37">Msgbox sMsg</paragraph> 75<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149257" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">End Sub</paragraph> 76</body> 77</helpdocument> 78