ok, i need help figuring something out in visual basic. what i want to do is i want to write a program that can read a standard text file, and figure out if anything new has been added to this file since the last time it checked it. i was figuring that first it would check (this is the part i need the most help with, because my current understanding of reading files is "Open 'whatever' for Input as #1", that sorta thing), and then it would copy this file to another location to use as a comparison for the next time it checks. i then want the program to be able to display whats new to the end of this file (ie, whether someone has appended something to it), and id like it look for certain words. now, your probably wondering what this is for. i want to be able to have an action performed when certain key words are typed. i have a keylogger running, and it writes the log to a text file. im trying to write a program that will read and interpret this log file. sorry if ive been a little vague, but any help you can give would be welcomed thanks, Dave

k, im still trying here. ive gotten it to copy the old file, but i still need a way of comparing the two, and finding certain new words any help would be great thanks, Dave

It's been awhile since i've used vb, so bear with me. The way I understand you is that the keylogger keeps adding information to the end of a file. So you should be able to find out how many lines are in the copied file, and then check if the new file has more. open file copy do while not eof counter = counter +1 input line loop close file copy open new file do while not eof counter2 = counter2 + 1 input line if counter2 > counter then ouput line end if loop

Not sure how your opening the file to read it But here are a few ideas why not append time/date commmand into the text file each time you open it as a marker or make a seperate text file with a time date and line count for each time the file is opened My Page has many quick explainations of basic commands Feel free to contribute Or enlighten me with code examples that are not on my page I am particularly interested in learning hardware periph