Need help ASAP

[phantom3008]

have a web application in which i need to include this feature.....I also do have the form and stuff ..
Need to be able to display a text file with default values in it and then also should be able to alter the text in it and then save it ..

I'm a beginner in this so Please could anyone help me with the code to do so......

[phantom3008]

Could someone plz help me out..........

[jhardman]

This isn'ta really easy question, I've done it before with a really simple method I thought would always work, then when I switched servers it stopped. Anyway, to open a text file for reading:

<%
dim fs, tf, line
set fs = createObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set tf = fs.openTextFile("c:\inetpub\myFile.txt", 1, 0)
do
   line = tf.readLine 
   response.write line
loop until tf.AtEndOfStream
tf.close
%>

of course, if you want the user to edit this, it should be within a textarea of a form, right? Anyway, if the text area was sent in a form as "fileText" you save it like this:

<%
dim fs, tf
set fs = createObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set tf = fs.createTextFile("c:\inetpub\myFile.txt")
tf.write(request.form("fileText"))
tf.close
%>

This might give an error when you try to over-write an existing file. I thought there was an easy fix, but I can't find it. Anyone else reading this know what it is?