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No space is left between the records.</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154491" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="13">Example:</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Sub ExampleRandomAccess</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph> 61<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<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156286" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Dim aFile As String</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149400" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150330" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156278" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">Seek #iNumber,1 REM Position to start writing</paragraph> 67<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<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<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<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150045" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Seek #iNumber,2</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145149" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">Get #iNumber,,sText</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">Print sText</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3163806" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 74<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149568" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> 75<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155607" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154022" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="33">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph> 77<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150940" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">Put #iNumber,,"This is new text"</paragraph> 78<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146132" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="35">Get #iNumber,1,sText</paragraph> 79<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154198" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="36">Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph> 80<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<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="38">Print Lof(#iNumber)</paragraph> 82<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3151277" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="39">Close #iNumber</paragraph> 83<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="41">end sub</paragraph> 84</body> 85</helpdocument> 86