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Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ?

From GS <gs@v.invalid>
Newsgroups microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ?
Date 2017-04-29 01:19 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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>> "GS" <gs@v.invalid> wrote
>>
>>> Oops.., spoke too soon. Now I'm getting an empty file again.
>>> Back to the drawing board...
>>
>>   It's always a byte array, but you can also try
>> ResponseText. I haven't bothered. I just handle
>> a byte array because I get different file types.
>
> Hmm! Didn't see anything exampling ResponseText...
>>
>> VBA can't do just a basic write, like this?
>
> Not sure because it's downloading a plain text file, not a binary file. Are 
> you saying it becomes binary during the process?
>>
>> FF = FreeFile()
>>     Open sPath For Binary As #FF
>>         Put #FF, , AFile
>>     Close #FF
>>
>>   I don't see why you'd need to bring in something
>> like adodb. My understanding is that's something
>> mainly for scripting. Another dependency.
>
> Yeah, I was wondering about that myself but aborted 'spending' time on it 
> since the file created was/is empty.
>
> Anyway, since I found the API to clear the cache I'm going to stick with 
> UrlDownloadToFile unless someone shows me 'drop-in' code to download text 
> files via WinHttpRequest...<g>

Found a function (2 actually) that return the file contents using 
WinHttpRequest and passing URL,FullFilename as args. Not as lengthy<g> as your 
sample, but serves as a drop-in wrapper that gets the job done. I just write 
the return to file using normal VB file i/o!

Thanks again for your most appreciated efforts in helping me get this worked 
out!

-- 
Garry

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WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 14:14 +0200
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 09:06 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 16:44 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 18:50 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 11:39 +0200
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:22 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 17:27 +0200
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 13:49 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-20 17:56 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-20 13:24 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-21 01:05 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-20 21:42 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-21 10:11 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-21 09:23 +0200
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 09:57 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 17:20 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 14:27 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 22:15 +0200
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 18:30 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 11:09 +0200
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:23 -0400
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:59 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 17:41 +0200
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-18 11:58 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 09:56 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-26 16:35 +0200
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 10:44 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 11:07 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 16:29 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 21:26 -0400
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 23:28 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 01:11 -0400
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 09:28 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 15:22 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 19:16 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:08 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:11 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:17 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:21 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 22:37 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 00:01 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 01:19 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 01:46 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 12:36 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-29 19:59 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 20:18 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 23:50 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 19:29 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:04 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 22:25 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:31 -0400
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-18 19:20 +0200
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 19:58 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-19 14:59 +0200
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 16:46 +0200

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