Reads a specified number of characters from a TextStream file and returns the resulting string.
Arguments
- object
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Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.
- characters
-
Required. Number of characters you want to read from the file.
The following example illustrates how to use the Read method to read a six character header from a file and return the resulting string:
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function GetHeader()
{
var fso, f;
var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForWriting, true);
f.Write("Header");
f.Write("1234567890987654321");
f.Close();
f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForReading);
return(f.Read(6));
}
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