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

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##### Description

> Writes a specified number of newline characters to a TextStream file.

##### Syntax

> object.WriteBlankLines(lines)

> The WriteBlankLines method syntax has these parts:

> Part | Description
> object | Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.
> lines | Required. Number of newline characters you want to write to the file.

##### Remarks

> The following example illustrates use of the WriteBlankLines method:

> >     Function WriteBlankLinesToFile
> >       Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
> >       Dim fso, f
> >       Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> >       Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
> >       f.WriteBlankLines 2
> >       f.WriteLine "Hello World!"
> >       Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)
> >       WriteBlankLinesToFile = f.ReadAll
> >     End Function

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