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Description

Skips a specified number of characters when reading a TextStream file.

Syntax

object.Skip(characters)

The Skip method syntax has these parts:

Part	Description
object	Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.
characters	Required. Number of characters to skip when reading a file.

Remarks

Skipped characters are discarded.

The following example illustrates the use of the Skip method:

function SkipDemo()
{
  var fso, f, r;
  var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2;
  fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForWriting, true);
  f.WriteLine("Hello world!");
  f.WriteLine("JScript is fun");
  f.Close();
  f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForReading);
  f.Skip(6);
  r = f.ReadLine();
  return(r);
}