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-Stu

I think this is what I get also on my SearchFile% function.
It's stopping the compiler build an exe, but it runs fine.

-Stu

Help!!

-Stu  :)

I had to modify the function to get it to work.

FUNCTION SearchFile% (LogFile$, Search$)
FOUND% = 0
OPEN LogFile$ FOR INPUT AS #1
DO UNTIL EOF(1)
LINE INPUT #1, LineText$
IF INSTR(LineText$, Search$) THEN
FOUND% = 1
EXIT DO
END IF
LOOP
CLOSE #1
SearchFile% = FOUND%
END FUNCTION

I am ...

Thanks very much!

I'll be back (for more help likely)

-Stu

I'm trying to write a function to search a file for a string, and once found, return with "yes" (for found).

Here's what I think is a finished function, but was wondering if you could check it through because I'm a QB newb.

FUNCTION SearchFile (FileName$, Name$)
NameLen = LEN(Name$)
SearchNum = 1 ...

Thanks!

So PRINT will become write while it sits in OPEN and CLOSE?

Edit: Print #1 works perfectly.
I've been reading a book on QB, which didn't refer to using the PRINT statement for file writes.

-Stu

I am trying to write multi-character strings to a file, in this case writing an html doc containing the output of my program.

Now, the problem is, html contains " in them, and also < >
The compiler takes these as open quotes for new parts and operators, but I want them to be just part of the same ...