Action Property

Sets an action to be performed by the control.

Syntax

[form!]C1Awk.Action = ActionSettings

Remarks

The Action property is used to start and control scanning of text files.

The effect of the settings for the Action property are described below:

0 - acScan

This setting causes Awk to perform the following actions:

Open the file specified by the FileName property;
Fire the Begin event;
Read the file parsing each line and firing the Scan event for each one;
Close the file;
Fire the End event.

1 - acNextLine

This setting action causes Awk to read the next line from the current data file. It can be useful in the routine that handles the Scan event. If the file is not open when you set Action to acNextLine, Awk will open it for you, and you must close the file when you are done with it by setting the Action property to acClose.

2 - acClose

This setting causes Awk to close the current file and stop scanning it.

Data Type

ActionSettings (Enumeration)