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    Posted: 14 April 2003 at 12:45pm

Im trying to write to a text file without deleting the existing text in the file....but when I use this method:

set FSO = Server.CreateObject("scripting.FileSystemObject")
set myFile = fso.CreateTextFile("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test.txt", true)
myFile.WriteLine("howdy)
myFile.Close
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
set fso = server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set f = fso.GetFile("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test.txt")
set ts = f.OpenAsTextStream(ForReading, -2)
Do While not ts.AtEndOfStream
     myText = myText & ts.ReadLine

It writes over the text that was in the file before .

So my question is....how do I prevent that from happening and just add text to the existing text that is in the file.

 

Thx in advance

 

 

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your issue is

set myFile = fso.CreateTextFile("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test.txt", true)

yup, thats creating a new text file just like its told to do

OpenTextFile for appending instead

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