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Description

Reads a specified number of characters from a TextStream file and returns the resulting string.

Syntax

object.Read(characters)

The Read method syntax has these parts:

Part	Description
object	Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.
characters	Required. Number of characters you want to read from the file.

Remarks

The following example illustrates how to use the Read method to read five characters from a file and return the resulting string:

Function ReadTextFileTest
  Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
  Dim fso, f, Msg
  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)
  ReadTextFileTest =  f.Read(5)
End Function