WriteBlankLines Method 

Writes a specified number of newline characters to a TextStream file.

object.WriteBlankLines(lines)

Arguments

• object
  Required. Always the name of a TextStream object.

• lines
  Required. Number of newline characters you want to write to the file.

Remarks

The following example illustrates the use of the WriteBlankLines method:

function WriteBlanksDemo()

{

   var fso, f, r;

   var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2;

   fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

   f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForWriting, true);

   f.Write("Hello world!");

   f.WriteBlankLines(2);

   f.Write("JScript is fun!");

   f.Close();

   f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForReading);

   r = f.ReadAll();

   return(r);

}

Function WriteBlankLinesToFile

   Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2

   Dim fso, f

   Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

   Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)

   f.WriteBlankLines 2 

   f.WriteLine "Hello World!"

   Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)

   WriteBlankLinesToFile = f.ReadAll

End Function

Applies To:

TextStream Object

See Also

Reference

Write Method (FileSystemObject)
WriteLine Method (FileSystemObject)