Is the robots meta tag a replacement for the robots.txt file?

[Harry Mark]

Hello friends
Please give me the answer.

[terrijhon]

Sorry no idea about it brother..

[jsmichael6]

Both serving sam purpose with one difference if you block a page with robots.txt and that page linked by some other website , partially indexed page will shown in search result but if you block the page by using meta robots Pips wont show in SERPs.