yepp, i tried that....no good....ramesh know his stuff
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark A. Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l>FileIO overwrite ?
> At 03:12 AM 11/17/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >new yourname(Xtra"fileio")
> >openfile(yourname,"the filepath\txt.document")
> >Write(yourname,"the string")
> >OK!
>
> Did you actually try that? You won't get very far with it.
>
> If your intent was to simply open the file and writeString() the new text,
> then you'll find (once you get the commands correct) that overwriting a
> longer string with a shorter string does not replace the entire string. It
> replaces the text up to the length of the shorter string while leaving the
> rest of the longer string in place. That's why one must delete the file
> before writing the new data. See Ramesh's post for an example.
>
>
> --
> Mark A. Boyd
> Keep-On-Learnin' :)
>
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