Features       Ask DevGuru       ASP Resources       Find the Bug       Knowledge Base       Links       Tips of the Week       Tutorials   Products       dgCalendar       dgCharge New!       dgChart New!       dgFileUpload       dgReport New!       dgSort       dgTree   Site       Authoring       Coming Soon       DevGuru Resume       Link to Us       Merchandise       Sponsorships       Testimonials       What's New   Technologies       ADO 2.6       ASP       CSS2       HTML       JavaScript       Jet SQL       Transact-SQL Syntax       VBScript       WML       WMLScript       WSH       XML DOM                All Methods File Object METHOD:  File.OpenAsTextStream Implemented in version 3.0   object.OpenAsTextStream([iomode [, format]]) This method opens a specified file and returns an instance of a TextStream object that can then be manipulated - read from, written or appended to. This method has two optional parameters. The first, iomode, has the following available values: Constant Value   Description ForReading 1 File is opened for reading only ForWriting 2 File is opened for writing and the contents of any existing file with the same name are overwritten ForAppending 8 Opens the file and writes to the end of any existing text. The second optional parameter, format, can have any of the following values: Constant Value   Description TristateUseDefault -2 Uses the system default file format TristateTrue -1 Opens the file using the Unicode format TristateFalse 0 Opens the file in AscII format   Code: <% dim filesys, demofile, txtstream set filesys = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject") set demofile = filesys.CreateTextFile ("c:\somefile.txt", true) set demofile = filesys.GetFile("c:\somefile.txt") set txtstream = demofile.OpenAsTextStream (2, -2) txtstream.Write "This will overwrite any text already in the file." txtstream.Close %> Copyright 1999-2001 by Infinite Software Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademark Information