still very much a newbie to scripting...

have need to remove (top) first 2, 3, or 4 lines
from a textfile... number of lines depends on
file being processed...

also have same need for the bottom 5, 6 lines...

would appreciate very much any helpful
examples of how to do this is vb script...

many thanks and regards,

hank

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Dim iLineCount
Dim iCurLine

-Create FSO object
-Open text file for reading

' Get line count
-Do while not at end of text file
   iLineCount = iLineCount + 1
-Loop

-Create a temp text file for writing
-Do while not at end of text file

  ' Get the first 4 lines or so
  - If iCurLine < 4 then
     - write the line to the temp text file
  - End If

  ' Get the last 6 lines or so
  - If iCurLine > iLineCount - 6 then
     - write the line to the temp text file
  - End If

  - iCurLine = iCurLine + 1
-Loop

-close both files
' The temp text file has the lines you need

-Chad

The example removes the first 2 and the last 2 lines.  Just add logic that decides what nFirst and
nLast should be...

set fso = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
set ts = fso.opentextfile("c:\test.txt")
arLines = split(ts.readall,vbcrlf)
ts.close
Const ForWriting = 2
set ts = fso.opentextfile("c:\test.txt",ForWriting)
nFirst = 2
nLast = ubound(arLines) -2
for n = nFirst to  nLast
    ts.writeline arLines(n)
next

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