Line Input #
 
Reads one line of text from a file

Syntax

Line Input #file number, string_variable

Parameters

file number
file number of an file opened for Input
string_variable
variable to receive the line of text

Description

Reads a line from an open text file (opened for Input through a bound file number) and stores it in a string variable.

A line of text ends at, but does not include the end of line characters. An end of line character may be the LF character (Chr(10)) or the CRLF character pair (Chr(13,10)).

Example

Dim s As String

Open "myfile.txt" For Output As #1
Print #1, "Hello, World"
Close #1

Open "myfile.txt" For Input As #1
Line Input #1, s
Close #1
Print s


Differences from QB

  • None

See also