Deleting and writing over lines in VB6
 

For a program in class, I need to be able to search for a string in a text file (one word per line) and be able to either delete it or write over it, depending on what the user chooses. I can check for a match, but I don't know how to write over the line or delete it once i've found it. Any help is appreciated. i'll provide more info if needed.

Thanks,
---ae

Here's a little pseudo code for ya for a function:

open text file
then loop with a while not eof loop
check string read in from text file against compairison string.
if string == string then
if userchoice == delete
delete line and text so that there is no white space.
elseif userchoice == overwirte
Over write string with what ever the user wants.
end if
end if
end while loop
close text file
end function.

I hate the way sequential, and transaction file methods are drummed into students heads by teachers who learned to program in the 1970s.
The line-by-line concept was only adopted because that was how printers used to work. Nowadays files do not have to be organised by line breaks - just try parsing SGML in that way!
Using a couple of well placed mids and replaces should do the trick, just search between vbcrlf's