ReadLine Method

Description

Reads an entire line (up to, but not including, the newline character) from a TextStream file and returns the resulting string.

Syntax

object.ReadLine

The object argument is always the name of a TextStream object.

Remarks

The following example shows how to use the ReadLine method to read a line from a TextStream file and return the string:

Function ReadLineTextFile
  Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
  Dim fso, MyFile
  Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Set MyFile = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
  MyFile.WriteLine "Hello world!"
  MyFile.WriteLine "The quick brown fox"
  MyFile.Close
  Set MyFile = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)
  ReadLineTextFile = MyFile.ReadLine	' Returns "Hello world!"
End Function