Talk:Visual Basic/Files

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[edit] How to specify the path to a file

I need to know how to use open statement in VB to open a file with variable name. I could do it using:

Open CStr(variable) For Output As #1

but I can not specify the path ...........it shows error and I can not specify the extension .txt ?

please help me

thanks

The variable simply needs to hold a path to the file. Usually variable would be a string so there is no need to use CStr. The path can be an absolute path such as:

 variable = "d:\users\me\my file.txt"

or a file in the current directory (use CurDir to find out what that is):

 variable = "my file.txt"

or a path relative to the current directory like this:

 variable = "..\you\your file.txt"

or like this:

 variable = "mysub\myother file.txt"

For the more adventurous it can also include a reference to a shared file on a server that doesn't use a drive letter:

 variable = "\\someserver\someshare\somefile.txt"

I have added this to the page as well. --kwhitefoot 13:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)