WriteBlankLines Method

Writes a specified number of newline characters to a TextStream file.

object.WriteBlankLines(lines)

Arguments

object

Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.

lines

Required. Number of newline characters you want to write to the file.

Remarks

The following example illustrates use of the WriteBlankLines method:

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

See Also

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

Applies To: TextStream Object