Easy Method of Writing And Reading Small Text Files

In some specific cases, you can avoid the trouble by wrapping this functionality inside utility functions.

For example, I wrote the following two functions to go between strings and text files in my apps.

public Function ReadFile(FileName as string) as string

    Dim i as Integer
    i = FreeFile

    on error GoTo ErrorTrap

    Open FileName for input as #i
    ReadFile = input(LOF(i), i)
    Close #i

    Exit Function

ErrorTrap:

    ReadFile = ""

End Function


public Sub WriteFile(FileName as string, Contents as string)

    Dim i as Integer
    i = FreeFile

    Open FileName for Output as #i

    print #i, Contents
    Close #i

End Sub

Once these functions are in your project, you have a quick way of reading and writing text files. For example, the following code is a weird way of copying text files:

Call WriteFile("c:\b.txt", ReadFile("c:\a.txt"))