Call executable and get output

[Oleg Ogurok]

Hi all,

Could someone please give me an example of calling an external executable
from VB and getting the output from it as a string?
Thanks,

-Oleg.

[David]

Re: Call executable and get output

"Oleg Ogurok" <oogurok@thecra mgroup.ihatespa mmers.ireallydo .com> wrote in message news:<20ea3$3f7 c9b9e$825ec943$ 12558@nf2.news-service.com>...[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> Could someone please give me an example of calling an external executable
> from VB and getting the output from it as a string?
> Thanks,
>
> -Oleg.[/color]

Piece of cake. This is what I do in my program:

Dim obj as Object
dim strReturn as String

Set Obj = GetObject("", "Conv.Applicati on")
'Now I pass in a predefined recordset and some other info from other recordsets
'The ClientRS function in my external program returns a string which gets
'assigned to strReturn

strReturn = Obj.ClientRS(rs EXT, rs!Variable, rsEdit!Full)