Hi,

I need Help in Opening and reading a data file in Binary mode. I need to open the file, read line by line and extract (for example) bytes 10 - 25 from each line (record), and then write the extracted data to another file. Can someone help me please?
Thanks

The concept of "lines of data" doesn't apply to binary files, there are just bytes.

You can use the ADO Stream object to read/write binary files, or the older built-in VB method of
Open <<filename>> for Binary As <<filenumber>>
combined with Get and Put to read and write the data.

hth
Phil

Well my friend u can think about FileSystemObject also.
Add reference to "Microsoft Scripting Runtime". U can then create Object of "FileSystemObject" which is very flexible about reading and writing data from/To files.

Hope u can dig out. If no I will give u the code. But U should go for own try.


B. Anant

FileSystemObject is no good for reading binary files, it's only for text files.