haha yes definitely still a newbie!!! and I found a few different ways to go about it other than the way i said above.
Can do the original way I had, which involves more than one API / VBscript call, or simply
"
Dim objFSO
Dim objFile
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile("PARAMETER HERET")
If objFile.Size > 0 Then
Set objReadFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("PARAMETER HERE", 1)
strContents = objReadFile.ReadAll
objReadFile.Close
Response = MsgBox(strContents & "was found!")
Else
Response = MsgBox(&(1:) & "was not found!")
End If
set ObjFSO = Nothing
Set objFile = Nothing
"
Thanks for the feedback none the less.