Read Text From a File

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A routine to answer commonly asked newbie question. FileSystem Objects are avoided
so that function will work with all VB versions

Public Function ReadFileContents(FileFullPath As String) As _
String
'******************************************************
'Purpose: Opens a text file and returns its contents in a string variable
'Parameters: FileFullPath - Directory/FileName to open
'Returns: The contents of the file, or an empty string if an error occurs
'Example:
'sFileContents = ReadFileContents("C:\My Documents\MyFile.txt")
'*******************************************************
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim iFileNumber As Integer
Dim sAns As String

If Dir(FileFullPath) = "" Then Exit Function
iFileNumber = FreeFile
Open FileFullPath For Input As #iFileNumber
sAns = Input(LOF(iFileNumber), #iFileNumber)
ReadFileContents = sAns

ErrorHandler:
Close #iFileNumber
End Function

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