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Runtime error: '59' Bad Record Length
I am writing a program to read information from a file and output it to another file. But, when i run the program i get a runtime error 59. heres my code...
the stateInfo is defined in a module
Dim Current As stateInfo
Open "States.dat" For Random As #1 Len = Len(Current)
count = 0
Open "States.txt" For Input As #2
Do While Not EOF(1)
Input #2, tName, tAbbrev, tYear, tArea, tPop
'write to file
Current.sName = tName
Current.sAbbrev = tAbbrev
Current.sYear = tYear
Current.sArea = tArea
Current.sPop = tPop
count = count + 1
Put #1, count, Current
Loop
the stateInfo is defined in a module
Dim Current As stateInfo
Open "States.dat" For Random As #1 Len = Len(Current)
count = 0
Open "States.txt" For Input As #2
Do While Not EOF(1)
Input #2, tName, tAbbrev, tYear, tArea, tPop
'write to file
Current.sName = tName
Current.sAbbrev = tAbbrev
Current.sYear = tYear
Current.sArea = tArea
Current.sPop = tPop
count = count + 1
Put #1, count, Current
Loop
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thank u: aelatik, anv.... i no longer get any errors. But when i run the program, the file is created but nuthing is written inside.. what am i doing wrong? heres my code...
Option Explicit
Dim recordNum As Integer '---counts number of entries in file
Dim Current(50) As stateInfo
Private Sub cmdBegin_Click()
Dim tName As String
Dim tAbbrev As String
Dim tYear As Single
Dim tArea As Double
Dim tPop As Double
recordNum = 0
Open "STATES.txt" For Input As #2
Do While Not EOF(2)
Input #2, tName, tAbbrev, tYear, tArea, tPop
'write to file
Current(recordNum).sName = tName
Current(recordNum).sAbbrev
Current(recordNum).sYear = tYear
Current(recordNum).sArea = tArea
Current(recordNum).sPop = tPop
recordNum = recordNum + 1
Put #1, recordNum, Current(recordNum)
Loop
Close #2
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim state As stateInfo
Open "State.dat" For Random As #1 Len = Len(state)
End Sub
Option Explicit
Dim recordNum As Integer '---counts number of entries in file
Dim Current(50) As stateInfo
Private Sub cmdBegin_Click()
Dim tName As String
Dim tAbbrev As String
Dim tYear As Single
Dim tArea As Double
Dim tPop As Double
recordNum = 0
Open "STATES.txt" For Input As #2
Do While Not EOF(2)
Input #2, tName, tAbbrev, tYear, tArea, tPop
'write to file
Current(recordNum).sName = tName
Current(recordNum).sAbbrev
Current(recordNum).sYear = tYear
Current(recordNum).sArea = tArea
Current(recordNum).sPop = tPop
recordNum = recordNum + 1
Put #1, recordNum, Current(recordNum)
Loop
Close #2
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim state As stateInfo
Open "State.dat" For Random As #1 Len = Len(state)
End Sub
Use the get method for reading the data from "states.dat" file...
anv