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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Get Statement</title>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3154927" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020201.xhp">Get Statement</link></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3145069" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Reads a record from a relative file, or a sequence of bytes from a binary file, into a variable.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3154346" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020204.xhp" name="PUT"><item type="literal">PUT</item></link> Statement</paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id3150358" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Syntax:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3150792" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Get [#] FileNumber As Integer, [Position], Variable</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3154138" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Parameters:</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150448" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>FileNumber:</emph> Any integer expression that determines the file number.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3154684" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Position:</emph> For files opened in Random mode, <emph>Position</emph> is the number of the record that you want to read.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153768" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">For files opened in Binary mode, <emph>Position</emph> is the byte position in the file where the reading starts.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3147319" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">If <emph>Position</emph> is omitted, the current position or the current data record of the file is used.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3149484" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Variable: Name of the variable to be read. With the exception of object variables, you can use any variable type.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id3153144" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Example:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340774864" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Sub ExampleRandomAccess</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340773632" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3155307" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sText As Variant ' Must be a variant</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340770608" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim aFile As String</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340769376" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340768128" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> iNumber = Freefile</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340766896" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3149411" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> Seek #iNumber,1 ' Position at beginning</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153158" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> Put #iNumber,, "This is the first line of text" ' Fill line with text</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3148457" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> Put #iNumber,, "This is the second line of text"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150715" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> Put #iNumber,, "This is the third line of text"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340758576" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Seek #iNumber,2</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340757344" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Get #iNumber,,sText</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340756112" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Print sText</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340754880" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Close #iNumber</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340753648" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> iNumber = Freefile</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340752416" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Open aFile For Random As #iNumber Len=32</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340751152" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3155938" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> Put #iNumber,,"This is a new text"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340748176" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Get #iNumber,1,sText</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340746928" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Get #iNumber,2,sText</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3146916" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> Put #iNumber,20,"This is the text in record 20"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340743936" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Print Lof(#iNumber)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340742704" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Close #iNumber</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340741472" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">End Sub</paragraph>
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