Hi,

Is it possible for me to read a text file (just contains a number) an
write the number to a cell and then increment that number and save tha
back into the text file?

Regards,

Sanja

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It's possible, but you don't need to do that much work.

Option Explicit
Sub testme01()

Dim myNumber As Long
Dim myLine As String
Dim myFileName As String
Dim FileNum As Long

myFileName = "C:\my documents\excel\text.txt"
FileNum = FreeFile

'read previous number:
If Dir(myFileName) = "" Then 'not found
MsgBox "File is missing!"
Exit Sub
Else
Close FileNum
Open myFileName For Input As FileNum
Do While Not EOF(FileNum)
Line Input #FileNum, myLine
myNumber = Val(myLine)
Loop
Close FileNum
End If

myNumber = myNumber + 1

Open myFileName For Output As FileNum
Print #FileNum, myNumber
Close FileNum

End Sub



"sanjay <" wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible for me to read a text file (just contains a number) and
write the number to a cell and then increment that number and save that
back into the text file?

Regards,

Sanjay

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Dave Peterson