how to delete certain file information

[ryan]

I need to find in VB to manipulate a file to do the following. Say I had a file with the following contents:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Now I want to open that file and delete, starting from the number 4 to the number 6 and the result of the file should look like:

1
2
3
7
8

How can I do this via the FileSystemObject. There is no pointer of any kind so I'm having a hard time.

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[ReneV]

yes, you can do it via filesystemobject. the help for that can be found at msdn.microsoft.com..

what you'd generally do is open the file for read, open a tempfile for output and write only the stuff from the source that you want to keep.
then delete (or backup) the sourcefile, replacing tempfile for source-file.

 

[swilliams]

Other help should be available on your local machine, in a file called vbscript.chm

Simon