VBS Writing to Text File

Question

I want to use VB script to write to a text file and have tried using:

My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("C:\Users\Internet\test1.txt","This is new text to be added",True)

I get error -

 "Cannot use parenthesis when calling a sub".

If I remove the parenthesis, I get error -

Object required: 'My'

Have searched the help forums without luck. I'm using windows vista. could I be missing some libraries or such ?

Any help much appreciated.

VB.NET and VBScript are two very different things. The code you have shown is VB.NET. If you want to use VBScript then you need to write VBScript code. — jmcilhinney, Apr 20 '16 at 05:23
Thanks. Can you point me towards a text file writing example in VB Script? — AussieCraig, Apr 20 '16 at 05:34
Thanks again. Found some VB Script file writing examples and am getting somewhere now. Much appreciated. — AussieCraig, Apr 20 '16 at 05:42
use search and google : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2198810/creating-and-writing-lines-to-a-file — CristiC777, Apr 20 '16 at 07:36

RanchiRhino · Answer 1 · 2016-04-22T06:48:22.297

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This is how you can do it using vbscript. This is a simple script to create a text file and write to it

    Dim fso, objOutFile
    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set objOutFile = fso.CreateTextFile("Myfile.txt",True)
    objOutFile.WriteLine "Hello World"

You can modify it to create and write file to any other location. For writing to an existing file you need different method.

edited Apr 22 '16 at 06:48

answered Apr 21 '16 at 09:56

RanchiRhino

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Globals, parentheses, and not using .WriteLine. – Ekkehard.Horner Apr 21 '16 at 10:16
Parentheses? (cf https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2003/09/15/what-do-you-mean-cannot-use-parentheses/) – Ekkehard.Horner Apr 21 '16 at 14:46

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