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

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##### Description

> Reads an entire TextStream file and returns the resulting string.

##### Syntax

> object.ReadAll

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

##### Remarks

> For large files, using the ReadAll method wastes memory resources. Other techniques should be used to input a file, such as reading a file line by line.

> >     Function ReadAllTextFile
> >       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)
> >       ReadAllTextFile =  f.ReadAll
> >     End Function

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