Creating data files

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Creating data files

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Creating data files

Apr 7th, 2008

I need to create a data file called students.dat and insert a few records into it.

I need (3) fields: 1) student id no. 2) last name 3) first name

I thought it would be pretty straight forward, but I get a compile error: Invalid Outside Procedure and "students.dat" is highlighted. Can anyone help me out on this? Thanks in advance.

Here is my code thus far.

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Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

' Create Students Data file

Open "students.dat" For Output As #1

Write #1, "123-00", "Joan", "Blake"
Write #2, "560-05", "Mary", "Smith"

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Last edited by clueless101 : Apr 7th, 2008 at 11:59 am.