getting invalid procedure call or argument in vbscript

Question

I have the below code..I am getting an invalid call or procedure at this statement txsOutput.Writeline txsInput1.ReadAll ..The combination file is ust a text file which has

Answer 1

The error 5 when calling TextStream.WriteLine is typically caused by trying to write data the TextStream can't encode:

Trying to write "U+1F00 ἀ e1 bc 80 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI" to a stream opened with/for 'ASCII' encoding:

>> Set f = goFS.CreateTextFile(".\tmp.txt")
>> f.WriteLine "AÄ"
>>  --- no news here means: written ---
>> f.WriteLine ChrW(&H1F00)
>>
Error Number:       5
Error Description:  Invalid procedure call or argument

To prove this:

>> f.close
>> Set f = goFS.CreateTextFile(".\tmp.txt", True, True) ' overwrite, unicode
>> f.WriteLine ChrW(&H1F00)
>>
>> --- no news are good news --

As the data source (.ReadAll()) seems to come from the WWW, it's probable that it contains non ASCII/ANSI text. Be warned though, just opening the output file for Unicode (=UTF-16) won't help if the input is UTF-8 slurped by .ReadAll() on a ASCII Textstream.