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Writing to a text file

This might be an easy question but I'm having problems writing to a text file in visual basic .net 2005. The old visual basic syntax of " Open "file" for output as #1" does not seem to work at all. This is not really the problem though, my problem lies in just getting the syntax right to write to a simple text file created using:

Dim result As System.IO.TextWriter = System.IO.File.CreateText("C:\Documents and Settings\astairs\Desktop\result.txt")

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

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Optamis

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I guess perhaps I should search before I haul off and ask a question... Very helpful though, fixed my problem 100%. I do have one more question though, what's the syntax for starting a new line and new page when writing to a text file?

List244

I believe the following would all give you results for new line:

Chr(13) + Chr(10)
file.WriteLine()
ChrW(13) + ChrW(10)
Environment.NewLine()

I do not know exactly what you mean by a new page though.

List244

Also, in the future, you may be better off posting your questions here:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Dot_Net/VB_DOT_NET/

Optamis

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Thanks List244, Unfortunatly

Chr(13) + Chr(10)
file.WriteLine()
ChrW(13) + ChrW(10)
Environment.NewLine()

isn't working for me to get a new line. All I need to do is after the Writeline is start a newline. Also, what I mean but a new page is that after so many writes or when the page is full it will insert the page number and start a new page. Any ideas?

Thanks again!!

Optamis

ASKER

I figured it all out, thanks for the help. Without your guidance I wouldn't have the working writelines. Thanks List244.

List244

Optamis, I should have been more clear with my first post, what I meant was you could use the chr and environment options
as string appends to add new lines. The file.WriteLine() would write a line byitself. They were just many options on how
you could do it.

However, I am glad you got it all worked out.