Input (File Mode)

Open filename for Input [Encoding encoding_type] [Lock lock_type] as [#]filenum

filename
encoding_type
lock_type
filenum

A file mode used with Open to open a text file for reading.

This mode allows to read sequentially lines of text with Line Input #, or to read comma separated values with Input #.

Text files can't be simultaneously read and written in FreeBASIC, so if both functions are required on the same file, it must be opened twice.

filename must be a string expression resulting in a legal file name in the target OS, without wildcards. The file will be sought for in the present directory, unless the filename contains a path . If the file does not exist, an error is issued. The pointer is set at the first character of the file.

Encoding_type indicates the Unicode Encoding of the file, so characters are correctly read. If omitted, "ascii" encoding is defaulted. Only little endian character encodings are supported at the moment.

• "utf8",
  
• "utf16"
  
• "utf32"
  
• "ascii" (the default)
  
  

Lock_type indicates the way the file is locked for other processes, it is one of:

• Read - the file can be opened simultaneously by other processes, but not for reading
  
• Write - the file can be opened simultaneously by other processes, but not for writing
  
• Read Write - the file cannot be opened simultaneously by other processes (the default)
  
  

filenum is a valid FreeBASIC file number (in the range 1..255) not being used for any other file presently open. The file number identifies the file for the rest of file operations. A free file number can be found using the FreeFile function.

Dim ff As UByte
Dim randomvar As Integer
Dim name_str As String
Dim age_ubyte As UByte

ff = FreeFile
Input "What is your name? ",name_str
Input "What is your age? ",age_ubyte
Open "testfile" For Output As #ff
Write #ff, Int(Rnd(0)*42),name_str,age_ubyte
Close #ff
randomvar=0
name_str=""
age_ubyte=0

Open "testfile" For Input As #ff
Input #ff, randomvar,name_str,age_ubyte
Close #ff

Print "Random Number was: ", randomvar
Print "Your name is: " + name_str
Print "Your age is: " + Str(age_ubyte)

'File outputted by this sample will look like this,
'minus the comment of course:
'23,"Your Name",19

• Append
  
• Open
  
• Output