Question

In a program I am migrating from vb6 to VB.net, there are three Line Input# statements, all the same:

Line Input #9, dummy
Line Input #9, dummy
Line Input #9, dummy

Will this just overwrite the variable each time, or do something stupid like append the input to dummy each time?

My second question, what’s the difference between Input# and Line Input#? I had been using:

foo = bar.readline 

for Input #.. and now I’m afraid that I’ve done it all wrong and should have used:

foo = bar.Read 

or something
All help greatly appreciated
Thanks guys!
Nick

Answer 1

The Line Input statement reads all the text in the input file up until the next CR or CR-LF sequence and puts it in the variable dummy. So these statements will, as you surmise, overwrite the variable dummy each time.

Input reads input until the next CR, CR-LF sequence or delimiting comma, and saves the data read in dummy.

I’m inclined to the view that you are right, you should really use bar.Read for Input # and bar.ReadLine for Input Line.

See Input # and Line Input # for more.