Creating a Text File in VB Script using FileSystemObject

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How to Create a Text File using VB Script?

Using the File System Object method CreateTextFile we create a Text file and Using the GetFile Method we get the newly created file.

'Create a Text File using FSO or FileSystemObject

'Step 1: Create an object variable that interacts with the File System Object Library.

Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'Step 2: Use the CreateTextFile method along with the object to create a text file at desired location.

Fso.CreateTextFile("F:\Test.txt")

'Step 3: Use the GetFile method to get the newly created file and store in a variable called s.

Set s = fso.GetFile("F:\Test.txt")

'Step 4: Use the name method to get the file name and print it along with the message.

Msgbox "The Text Files Created is "&s.name

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