ReadLine Method

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

                      object.ReadLine( )

Remarks

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

Remarks

The following example illustrates the use of the ReadLine method.

var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8;

var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

// Open the file for output.
var filename = "c:\\testfile.txt";

var f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename, ForWriting, true);

// Write to the file.
f.WriteLine("Hello world!");
f.WriteLine("The quick brown fox");
f.Close();

// Open the file for input.
f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename, ForReading);

// Read from the file and display the results.
while (!f.AtEndOfStream)
    {
    var r = f.ReadLine();
    document.write (r + "<br />");
    }
f.Close();

Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Dim fso, MyFile, FileName, TextLine

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Open the file for output.
FileName = "c:\testfile.txt"

Set MyFile = fso.OpenTextFile(FileName, ForWriting, True)

' Write to the file.
MyFile.WriteLine "Hello world!"
MyFile.WriteLine "The quick brown fox"
MyFile.Close

' Open the file for input.
Set MyFile = fso.OpenTextFile(FileName, ForReading)

' Read from the file and display the results.
Do While MyFile.AtEndOfStream <> True
    TextLine = MyFile.ReadLine
    Document.Write TextLine & "<br />"
Loop
MyFile.Close

Applies To:

TextStream Object

See Also

Concepts

Working with Files

Reference

Read Method

ReadAll Method

Skip Method

SkipLine Method

Change History

Date	History	Reason
September 2009	Removed unused constants from examples.	Customer feedback.
April 2009	Improved examples.	Information enhancement.
March 2009	Improved examples.	Customer feedback.