Read Method
Reads a specified number of characters from a TextStream file and returns the resulting string.
object.Read(characters)
Arguments
object
Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.characters
Required. Number of characters you want to read from the file.
The following example illustrates how to use the Read method to read a six character header from a file and return the resulting string:
function GetHeader()
{
var fso, f;
var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForWriting, true);
f.Write("Header");
f.Write("1234567890987654321");
f.Close();
f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForReading);
return(f.Read(6));
}
Function ReadTextFileTest
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Dim fso, f, Msg
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)
ReadTextFileTest = f.Read(5)
End Function