Re: How to add text to the beginning of a file
Re: How to add text to the beginning of a file
- Subject: Re: How to add text to the beginning of a file
- From: David Nelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:18:40 -0500
Hello,
I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I think the only way
to add something to the beginning of a file is to read the whole file
into a variable and then use the concatenation operator to prepend your
data then write the data back to the file. Something like this:
set headlineText to ("AppleScript is Way Cool!" & return) -- Headline to
prepend to my article.
set fRef to open for access file "Mac HD:article.txt" with write
permission
set mainText to read fRef
set modText to (headlineText & mainText) -- Prepend the headline.
set eof of fRef to 0 -- empty the file
write modText to fRef
close access fRef
On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 06:39 PM, Kinsella, John R. wrote:
Here's one I can't figure out. I need to add text to a file at the
beginning of a file. (I know how to add it to the end of a file {write
theText to file TheFile starting at eof}
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