As far as reading and writing text, RB doesn't care what the extension is. If you decide to go with a text file, there are (essentially) functional examples of how to both read and write text files in the LR.
Check TextOutputStream and TextInputStream. HTH -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Cabrera Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:07 AM To: gettingstarted@lists.realsoftware.com Subject: Re: reading in a saved binary file doesn't show the same exact data Wow, I appreciate all the discussion. I'm Joe, the original poster, who gets confused easily (unfortunately) and learns best by seeing concrete examples. So let me try this instead: can you show me a few lines of what I should be doing? All I want to do is write ASCII characters to a file (with my own file extension), then read this data back from the saved file so I can use it. I've tried checking out a few examples online but they must be from early versions of RB because encoding isn't even mentioned. SInce it's just ASCII, should I be doing it as a text stream instead? Or are text streams only for saving to and reading from files of extension TEXT rather than my own extension? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
