ReadAll Method

Reads an entire TextStream file and returns the resulting string.

object.ReadAll

The object is always the name of a TextStream object.

Remarks

For large files, using the ReadAll method wastes memory resources. Other techniques should be used to input a file, such as reading a file line by line.

Function ReadAllTextFile
   Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
   Dim fso, f
   Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
   f.Write "Hello world!"
   Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)
   ReadAllTextFile =   f.ReadAll
End Function

See Also

Close Method | Read Method | ReadLine Method | Skip Method | SkipLine Method | Write Method | WriteLine Method | WriteBlankLines Method

Applies To: TextStream Object