reading from a notepad

[GaryKoh]

hello can you please tell me how to open and extract the data from a notepad and then save the data into it without the system prompt me a message to overwrite the existing notepad or if is possible please give me a link so that i can study it more deeply thank you in advance and may you have a good day Gary

[Dave Kreskowiak]

This doesn't make any sense. Are you talking about controlling the Notepad application from an application that you are writing? There is no such thing as "overwriting the existing Notepad". Notepad is an application, you can't overwrite it. Are you talking about copying and pasting text? You going to have to be a bit more clear on what your trying to accomplish. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

[GaryKoh]

sorry about that i'll try to make it clear this time im trying to read some value that is available inside a .txt file then the application will do some calculation later the result of the calculation will be appended to a new .txt file example i read value from info.txt then save the output in out.txt i hope this is clearer than the one i write before sorry again that i make it so confusing please if there is a link that i can refer, please tell me thank you Gary

[Dave Kreskowiak]

You're talking about simply reading and writing values to/from text files. See this[^] on MSDN for a quick example. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

[GaryKoh]

wow.. it works already and this link provide me more information than i require thanks Dave this helps me a lot thank you again for your help Gary