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A question about objects

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Topic: A question about objects

Posted By: Ariod
Subject: A question about objects
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 1:45pm

I've been studying ASP for a week now, reading tutorials on the 'net, etc. But there's one thing bothering me. In the following example:

Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objDat = objFSO.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath("file.txt"), 1)

I understand that objFSO is an instance of the FileSystemObject. I also understand that OpenTextFile is a method of that object. Why am I creating another object then, objDat? Does OpenTextFile return an object? Are there any subobjects?

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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 4:15pm

objDat is an instance of a text file. For instance you would have to type

(objFSO.OPenTextFile(Server.MapPath("file.txt"), 1)).writeline

everytime you wanted to write a line to the text file. To replace all of that you can set a variable to the objFSO.OPenTextFile(Server.MapPath("file.txt"), 1) so you don't have to type it all. so now you can say

objDat.writeline

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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 4:17pm

p.s. by creating objDat you are creating an instance of a class/method/property inside the file system object. As you can see it is easier to type the one on the bottom rather than the one on the top...

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