hi,

i am not able to write a text properly in a text file in vb.net.below
is the code that i have written.

    Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
      System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
        Dim counter As Integer
        FileOpen(1, "c:\sample.txt", OpenMode.Random, , , 50)
        For Counter = 1 To 5
            FilePut(1, "ganesh", counter)
        Next Counter
        FileClose(1)
    End Sub.
The output of the code is "? ganesh
     ? ganesh                                          ? ganesh
                                 ? ganesh
           ? ganesh"

i am not able to understand why this symbol gets displayed "?".is there
any solution for this ?

Thanks,
Ganesh

sethugan***@gmail.com wrote:
<snip code using FilePut>
FilePut isn't intended for writing text files - it's more for writing to
files that will be read back with FileGet. For VB functions to do what
you appear to want, see the docs for Write and WriteLine.

Andrew

hi,

i am using FileGet function to read the file.but i want to know why
the symbol "? ? " gets displayed while writing into file.

Thanks,
Ganesh


Andrew Morton wrote:
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sethugan***@gmail.com wrote:
Read the docs for FilePut for clues, e.g.
"If the variable being written is a string, FilePut writes a two-byte
descriptor containing the string length, and then writes the data that
goes into the variable. Therefore, the record length specified by the
RecordLength clause in the FileOpen function must be at least two bytes
greater than the actual length of the string."

And, knowing that it isn't actually a text file, you should be using a
hex editor to examine the content of the file.

HTH

Andrew

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