Hello again, if I wanted to write the text "Hello!"
on the second line of "test.txt", how would
I do that?
The programming language is QuickBASIC
Thanks again, everybody!

Woops, I left out something, my bad:

OPEN "c:\test.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
WRITE #1, "Whatsup"
CLOSE #1

This is what I have now, but when I open test.txt, I see (on line one) "Whatsup" (including the quotes) and I would like to get rid of the quotes, and have "Whatsup" on the third line of the file. Thanks again, everybody!

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To start with, the quotes are what is referred to as a text delimiter. This is how QB knows when a string begins and ends. In a text file using VB this is unavoidable. The only way to do this (yes it is doable but more difficult) is to write binary files using get and put rather than input and write. The other thing to be aware of is that QB text files are sequencial. This means that you must open them for append or rewrite them in the order of text you wish (the latter is the most common solution). I hope this clears some of your questions up. Feel free to keep asking.

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open "test.txt" for output as #1
print #1, ""
print #1, ""
print #1, "whatsup"
close #1

WRITE # and PRINT # are used for different purposes. WRITE creates comma separated data elements. Therefore the quotation marks.

Thank! Works great!

Thanks fred. It's been a while since I've used QB and I forgot about that difference...good catch.

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