How can I read data from a text file using VB6?

Question

I need to read data from text files and use the same in my application. Im using VB 6.0. What commands do I use? Some Sample code would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

if there is just plain text in the file then you can read in the whole into 1 string variable with the following code :

Private Sub ReadFile(strFile As String)
  Dim intFile As Integer
  Dim strData As String
  intFile = FreeFile
  Open strFile For Input As #intFile
    strData = Input(LOF(intFile), #intFile)
  Close #intFile
End Sub

a variable-length string can contain up to approximately 2 billion (2^31) characters