Re: writing data to a file
Re: writing data to a file
- Subject: Re: writing data to a file
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 09:13:51 -0400
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:54:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: writing data to a file
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From: Stephen Swift <email@hidden>
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At 4/30/02 12:02 PM, Kinsella, John R. (email@hidden) Wrote:
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> My roadblock is that I can't seem to
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> figure out how to access and write to a file more than once. I can create a
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> new txt file and add data to it once, but after that, I'm informed that
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> there is a duplicate file and the script errors out.
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Hmm... Are you clossing access to the file? You must do that before you
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open it again or it will give you an error.
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set selected_file to choose file
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set fileref to open for access selected_file with write permission
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write "text 1" & return to fileref
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close access fileref
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--Important Step!
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set fileref to open for access selected_file with write permission
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write "text 2" & return to fileref starting at eof
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close access fileref
This works, but it isn't good advise. Having called the "open for access"
method, you can read and write as much as you want, followed by a single
call to "close access".
I'm not sure what could cause the original posters's problem, perhaps
he could post a little bit of the code he is using?
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