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Writing/Reading a .txt file

This is very much a VB question not related to PC-DMIS. There is so much information out there for VB that I find it very hard to locate a good example of what I want to do.

I have a script at the beginning and end of my part program. I would like to get the total runtime of the program. I have a way to get systemtime in each and put it into seconds and such, thanks to this message board.

I do not want to write the beginning time to a variable and have it go through the part program. What I wanted was a temporary .txt file or something similar that I could write the begintime value (in seconds) to. The second script would grab this value and use it. The .txt file either needs to be cleared or overwritten by the new begintime number every execution. How do I code this?

My goal is to take these values and use them to calculate CMM run time for the day in Excel. Can I export the Total Runtime number I get in the second script to Excel? It will probably be easier to google information for this; I will update this post if I find what I am looking for.

Thanks!
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  • I can't download VB6 at work here, the download fails due to our firewall.

    I am using the Excel editor mainly for testing my scripts. Being newly introduced to scripts, I was getting about a dozen error boxes when using my code in PC-DMIS after writing it solely in notepad. Blush

    This is very powerful stuff I am learning to do, however. The lady that was supposed to code all this stuff, including my VB frontend for PC-DMIS, hasn't been around in a couple of weeks. I think they might have fired her....Neutral face So there will be a lot more questions pertaining to writing a frontend in VB in the coming weeks! Smiley
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  • I can't download VB6 at work here, the download fails due to our firewall.

    I am using the Excel editor mainly for testing my scripts. Being newly introduced to scripts, I was getting about a dozen error boxes when using my code in PC-DMIS after writing it solely in notepad. Blush

    This is very powerful stuff I am learning to do, however. The lady that was supposed to code all this stuff, including my VB frontend for PC-DMIS, hasn't been around in a couple of weeks. I think they might have fired her....Neutral face So there will be a lot more questions pertaining to writing a frontend in VB in the coming weeks! Smiley
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