Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition ReadLine Method | Language Reference Version 2

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##### Description

> Reads an entire line (up to, but not including, the newline character) from a TextStream file and returns the resulting string.

##### Syntax

> object.ReadLine

> The object argument is always the name of a TextStream object.

##### Remarks

> The following example shows how to use the ReadLine method to read a line from a TextStream file and return the string:

> >     Function ReadLineTextFile
> >       Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
> >       Dim fso, f
> >       Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> >       Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
> >       f.Write "Hello world!"
> >       Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)
> >       ReadLineTextFile = f.ReadLine
> >     End Function

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