Opening for Read and Write

[Mechanic]

I want to open a DOS file, look at the first 2 characters in each record and when I find special characters, over write that record with information from another file that's cued up and waiting.

Does visual basic support record pointers in files? If so, what commands move and reset the pointer for I/O purposes?
Mechanic

[Tim Francis-Wright]

On 2002-05-15 08:41, Mechanic wrote:
I want to open a DOS file, look at the first 2 characters in each record and when I find special characters, over write that record with information from another file that's cued up and waiting.

Does visual basic support record pointers in files? If so, what commands move and reset the pointer for I/O purposes?
Mechanic

Check the help documentation for the Open and Get statements.

You certainly can open a file in Read Write:
Open [pathname] For Binary Access Read Write

Opening as Binary allows record points on a byte-by-byte basis.

Good luck!