FSO Reference

• Collections
  • Drives
  • Files
  • Folders
• Drive
  • AvailableSpace
  • DriveLetter
  • DriveType
  • FileSystem
  • FreeSpace
  • IsReady
  • Path
  • RootFolder
  • SerialNumber
  • ShareName
  • TotalSize
  • VolumeName
• File
  • Attributes
  • Copy
  • DateCreated
  • DateLastAccessed
  • DateLastModified
  • Delete
  • Drive
  • Move
  • Name
  • OpenAsTextStream
  • ParentFolder
  • Path
  • ShortName
  • ShortPath
  • Size
  • Type
• Folder
  • Attributes
  • Copy
  • CreateTextFile
  • DateCreated
  • DateLastAccessed
  • DateLastModified
  • Delete
  • Drive
  • Files
  • IsRootFolder
  • Move
  • Name
  • ParentFolder
  • Path
  • ShortName
  • ShortPath
  • Size
  • SubFolders
  • Type
• FSO
  • BuildPath
  • Collections
  • CopyFile
  • CopyFolder
  • CreateFolder
  • CreateTextFile
  • DeleteFile
  • DeleteFolder
  • Drive
  • DriveExists
  • Drives
  • File
  • FileExists
  • Folder
  • FolderExists
  • GetAbsolutePathName
  • GetBaseName
  • GetDrive
  • GetDriveName
  • GetExtensionName
  • GetFile
  • GetFileName
  • GetFileVersion
  • GetFolder
  • GetParentFolderName
  • GetSpecialFolder
  • GetTempName
  • MoveFile
  • MoveFolder
  • OpenTextFile
  • TextStream
• TextStream
  • AtEndOfLine
  • AtEndOfStream
  • Close
  • Column
  • Line
  • Read
  • ReadAll
  • ReadLine
  • Skip
  • SkipLine
  • Write
  • WriteBlankLines
  • WriteLine

TextStream.Read(numOfCharacters)

Reads numOfCharacters from the open file., returning a string. NB this also moves the file pointer to the end of numOfCharacters
<% '***************** Read Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set textStreamObject = fso.OpenTextFile(Server.Mappath("\chris") & "\myfile.txt",1,false,0) Response.Write textStreamObject.Read(5) Set textStreamObject = Nothing Set fso = Nothing ' Output: ' hello %>

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