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When you want to store some data, either how many viewers your page have registered,
or you want to make a simple guestbook, you have to store the data. Textfiles is
a rather easy way to do this. In this tutorial I will show how to make, write to and
delete a textfile. I will not make a live example in this tutorial due to security. But you can
cut and paste the code into your own code.
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Make And Write To A File
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You use the same methods for writing to a file, and making a new. If the file
already exists, you will repleace the content with the new -> write new data to it.
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Dim filename, fs, f
filename = "myfirstfile.txt"
Set fs=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f=fs.CreateTextFile(filename,true)
f.write("Apron! This is my first file")
f.close
Set f=nothing
Set fs=nothing
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The file above will have this output:
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Apron! This is my first file.
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If you want to replace part of the text file, I recommend you use xml files
or a database to store your data. I have however made a wrapper class where
you can manipulate the textfile. You can download the class and read more about it
here.
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Dim filename, fs, f
filename = "myfirstfile.txt"
Set fs=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f=fs.GetFile(Server.MapPath(filename))
f.Delete
Set f=nothing
Set fs=nothing
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Category
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Programming with ASP
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Author
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Tommy Johannessen
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