Copy and replace simple text in a txt file using vbs

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Steve

When running the script below I see Error Line 2 Char 1 Invalid procedure call or argument please can someone advise:

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\newtons\Desktop\Text.txt",ForReading)

strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
strNewText = Replace(strText, "Jim ", "James ")

Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\newtons\Desktop\Text.txt",ForWriting)
objFile.WriteLine strNewText
objFile.Close

Hackoo

Try like that :

Option Explicit
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Dim objFSO,objFile,strText,strNewText
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\newtons\Desktop\Text.txt",ForReading)

strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
strNewText = Replace(strText, "Jim", "James")

Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\newtons\Desktop\Text.txt",ForWriting)
objFile.WriteLine strNewText
objFile.Close
set objFSO = Nothing
set objFile =

EDIT : In this case you should use VBScript regular expressions like this :

Option Explicit
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Dim objFSO,objFile,strText,strNewText,objRegEx
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\newtons\Desktop\Text.txt",ForReading)
strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
objRegEx.Global = True   
objRegEx.IgnoreCase = True
objRegEx.Pattern = "jim"
strNewText = objRegEx.Replace(strText,"James")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\newtons\Desktop\Text.txt",ForWriting)
objFile.WriteLine strNewText
objFile.Close
set objFSO = Nothing
set objFile = Nothing

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