Ever want to know how to display the contents of a text document using ASP. Here is a easy way to read

from a text file

<-->

<%

'by James Seymour, http://jamesdot.org

Dim write

Dim fileSysObj, tf, read

' Read the read.txt

' Store the file name where the Information is stored into a variable called read

read = "read.txt"

' Retrieve the fullpath of the read file

read = LEFT(Server.Mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")), InStrRev(Server.Mappath

(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")), "")) & read

' Create an instance of FileSystem Object and store it into a variable called fileSysObj

Set fileSysObj = createObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Check whether the read file exists

IF (fileSysObj.FileExists(read)) Then

' if the file exists, then open it for reading

Set tf = filesysobj.OpenTextFile(read, 1)

read = tf.ReadLine

tf.Close

ELSE

' if you can't find read.text, display default message

read = "I can't find the file read.txt! So this is my default message."

END IF

%>

' table the displays the read.txt file

<div align="center">

<center>

<table border="0" width="40%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td width="100%" bgcolor="#EEEECC"><B><%=read%></B>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="100%">

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