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Description

Reads a specified number of characters from a TextStream file and returns the resulting string.

Syntax

object.Read(characters)

The Read method syntax has these parts:

Part	Description
object	Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.
characters	Required. Number of characters you want to read from the file.

The following example illustrates how to use the Read method to read a six character header from a file and return the resulting string:

function GetHeader()
{
  var fso, f;
  var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2;
  fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
  f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForWriting, true);
  f.Write("Header");
  f.Write("1234567890987654321");
  f.Close();
  f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForReading);
  return(f.Read(6));
}