Thanx Ramesh....you saved me again !


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ramesh CT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l>FileIO overwrite ?


> At 04:48 PM 11/16/00, you wrote:
> >Hello again list !
> >
> >Does anyone know a fullproof way of overwriting a list or text in a 
> >"txt.document" using FileIO ? I know this must be easy, but i cant get it 
> >to work ....
> >
> >thanxalot !
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> -- movie script
> on overWriteFile pathToFile, newString
> 
>    fileObj = new(xtra "fileIO")
> 
>    path = pathToFile
> 
> 
>    statusOpen = openFile(fileObj, path, 0)
> 
>    if statusOpen = 0 then
>      delete(fileObj)
>    end if
> 
>    createFile(fileObj,path)
> 
>    openFile(fileObj, path, 0)
> 
>    writeString(fileObj,newString)
>    closefile(fileObj)
> end
> 
> -- from message window try
> overWriteFile "C:\windows\desktop\new.txt", "newtext"
> 
> Ramesh CT
> http://www.geocities.com/ramesh_ct/
> 
> 
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