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lamber

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Nov 19, 2003
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PT
I need a vbscript that read from file a.txt, and then write in file b.txt.

Best regards.
 
Feel free to do a keyword search in this forum for
Code:
 FileSystemObject
or
Code:
 fso

Hope This Help
PH.
 
lamber

This script reads from one text file and writes back to the same file. It is well commented and should get you off to a good start.

<% Option Explicit %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN&quot;>

<html>
<head>
<title>File Incrementer</title>


</head>

<body >

<H2 align=&quot;center&quot;>File Incrementer</h2>

<%
'Dimension the variables
Dim txtFileObj ' As a file object
Dim objFSO ' As a FileSystemObject
Dim filePath ' As a logical path to the file
Dim TextStreamObj ' As a text stream object
Dim longIntCount ' As a long integer count variable

'Define constants
Const fileName = &quot;asp_count.txt&quot; 'file to read & write to

' Create a filesystem object
Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject(&quot;Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot;)

'Map the logical path to the physical path
filePath = Server.MapPath(fileName)

'Initialise the File Object with the path and name of the text file
Set txtFileObj = objFSO.GetFile(filePath)

'Create a TextStream Object to read, create, and write to the text file
Set TextStreamObj = txtFileObj.OpenAsTextStream

'Read in the number from the text file, convert it to long integer data type
'and save it in a variable.
longIntCount = CLng(TextStreamObj.ReadAll)

'Increment the count variable
longIntCount = longIntCount + 1

'Overwrite the original text file with a new counter file
Set TextStreamObj = objFSO.CreateTextFile(filepath)

'Write the new number into the counter file
TextStreamObj.Write CStr(longIntCount)

'Release server resources
Set objFSO = Nothing
Set TextStreamObj = Nothing
Set txtFileObj = Nothing

Response.Write(&quot;<br>The count is &quot; & longIntCount)
%>

<br>
This file is read by another <A href=&quot;File Reader.asp&quot;>page</a> too!

<br><br>

</body>
</html>

 
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