VB?

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by complete

VB Anyone?

What about it? There's a lot to cover on the subject. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_.NET.

Please ask a specific question if you want a specific answer. We are not psychic; we can not read your mind.

[complete]

Yes, Visual Basic.
Let me post a few questions now.

[complete]

In Visual Basic 6 I have written a program to read and write to a file. It works fine. Now I have to do the same for binary data since the information I write to the file has end-of-line and return characters. For instance, when I write to the file, the data looks like this:

"3
34"

Because there is a break in the data. In debug mode, the text data has two boxes where the end-of-line and return characters go.

Anyway, does anyone have any example code of binary level reading and writing to and from a file?

[Eldarion]

If you are using the FileSystem/TextStream objects, you do not need to use binary access to read/write carriage returns or linefeeds. The only reason the CR/LF combo shows up as two boxes is because there is no way to display it with a single-line textbox (the debug window). If you were to do an asc() on one of those boxes, it would show up as ASCII 13 (CR) or ASCII 10 (LF).

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by complete

In Visual Basic 6 I have written a program to read and write to a file. It works fine. Now I have to do the same for binary data since the information I write to the file has end-of-line and return characters. For instance, when I write to the file, the data looks like this:

"3
34"

Because there is a break in the data. In debug mode, the text data has two boxes where the end-of-line and return characters go.

Anyway, does anyone have any example code of binary level reading and writing to and from a file?

Use the "Binary" mode, eg

Open "myfile" For Binary As #1

You then use the Get and Put statements to read/write data.

Please read the docs first, though. Binary mode files do not know sizes of data blocks; it loads enough data to fill the variable.