Hi,
i wondered if anyone in here knows how to access the contents of a text file
line by line randomly, that is, the program should be able to retrieve a
random line from the text file and display it to the user.

Thank you very much.
Please reply me at:

You can use the Line Input # command. To get the randomness, you would have
to do a random number of these line inputs and take the result from the last
one (ie, I think you have to open the file for input to use that command
whic himplies that the data can only be read sequentially)

set the file to be read as a type structure. dim  a variable of type ( file
structure) . dont forget to add a 2 byte field at the end of the file structure
to account for the cr lf. then u can use the get and put functions for random
read and write