Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!74.125.64.80.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!transit3.readnews.com!textspool1.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:41:25 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Virtual Access Open Source http://www.virtual-access.org/ Organization: RDP Message-Id: Subject: Re: Renaming a Directory in VB6???? From: Steve Rindsberg Reply-To: steve@rdpslides.com References: <4e20d437-1a2c-4812-a803-55d3121f5600@o7g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <1d45dee2-b566-46d2-a073-898d2aa4f426@o14g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <6d23b61f-1d5a-4ced-81dc-426f6852f2bf@u24g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <83438015-00c9-48e8-901c-0e4f39d665ca@y35g2000prc.googlegroups.com> Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2088ec67.news.iglou.com X-Trace: DXC=oX2AbOeJkAII\??^0ATCVD?d1JL[FQ2iEQn^3Vg_LF6CKZ:c?9jk:oMWWo];`E_LfC76Jm_LW3T_I X-Complaints-To: abuse@iglou.com Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:1817 In article <83438015-00c9-48e8-901c- 0e4f39d665ca@y35g2000prc.googlegroups.com>, Jason@smkzone.com wrote: > Got that working! > > Now, one last (for now, anyway, lol) annoying issue to deal with. > > I've created the text files for each individual employee. Now, let's > say it's a female employee and she gets married, or for some reason > she's had to get a new SSN. I don't want to overwrite the existing > file with Output, as the file also contains the clock-in and clock-out > timestamps for the employee, and I don't want to use Append to write > to the end of the file. I need to replace the existing info on a > specific line with the new info. How do I do that? I've looked all > over the internet and can't seem to find a suitable answer! Wouldn't it make more sense to generate your own unique ID for each employee instead of relying on information that might change?