1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. 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No space is left between the records.</paragraph> 58*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154491" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="13">Example:</paragraph> 59*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Sub ExampleRandomAccess</paragraph> 60*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph> 61*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154729" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Dim sText As Variant REM Must be a variant type</paragraph> 62*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156286" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Dim aFile As String</paragraph> 63*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149400" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph> 64*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 65*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150330" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph> 66*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156278" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">Seek #iNumber,1 REM Position to start writing</paragraph> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153711" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">Put #iNumber,, "This is the first line of text" REM Fill line with text</paragraph> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155446" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">Put #iNumber,, "This is the second line of text"</paragraph> 69*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154255" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Put #iNumber,, "This is the third line of text"</paragraph> 70*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150045" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Seek #iNumber,2</paragraph> 71*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145149" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">Get #iNumber,,sText</paragraph> 72*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">Print sText</paragraph> 73*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3163806" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 74*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149568" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 75*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155607" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph> 76*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154022" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="33">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph> 77*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150940" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">Put #iNumber,,"This is new text"</paragraph> 78*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146132" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="35">Get #iNumber,1,sText</paragraph> 79*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154198" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="36">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph> 80*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3159102" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="37">Put #iNumber,20,"This is the text in record 20"</paragraph> 81*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="38">Print Lof(#iNumber)</paragraph> 82*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3151277" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="39">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 83*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="41">end sub</paragraph> 84*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</body> 85*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument> 86