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Writing text to a file, quotation marks doubling up VB6

Thank you for lookig at my question,

I am trying to output a line of data to a text file as a string in the format:

"01","0","IDNo","Hour:Minutes","DD/MM/YYYY","WeekDayNo"

The Hours, Minutes, Date and Day Number are derived from declared values but the first part of the string - "01","0","IDNo" - is hard-coded.

I can reproduce the string in the format I need in a msgbox as check on what is about to be written to the file but whether I use Chr$(34) or two double quotation marks the text in the output file always has double double-quotes in the body of the string.

"01"",""0"",""IDNo"",""Hour:Minutes"",""DD/MM/YYYY"",""WeekDayNo"

How do I force only single instances of double-quotes?

GrahamSkan

This displays in standard CSV format

Dim strText As String

strText = """01"",""0"",""IDNo"",""Hour:Minutes"",""DD/MM/YYYY"",""WeekDayNo"""
MsgBox strText

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GrahamSkan

... and would be saved as such

Print #f, strText

als315

Use WriteLine for writing CSV files (1- file No):
WriteLine(1, "01", "0", "IDNo", Var1, Var2)
Format Var1 and Var2 properly

Gary Croxford

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Thank you, that solved the problem

Martin Liss

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