Hi Graham,
It seems it's dumb question week for me - many of you will wonder
how I've gone on with RR development for years and not known the
answer to this one... anyway:
I only work with local text files in my current app, and I've never
had to use the 'URL' form. However I think it would be convenient
to do an update of a file using this form, since I want to be able
to read the contents of a file and then replace the entire
contents. The 'open for update' and 'write to file' commands don't
seem to to make this very convenient, but of course I may be
misreading the docs... so I decide to use the form:
get URL someFileDesignation
... do stuff to 'it'...
put it into URL someFileDesignation
which seems from the docs to be an OK thing to do.
Anyway I tried to create 'someFileDesignation' as
"file:/C:/MyFirstDirectory/MySecondDirectory/Mydoc.text"
where everything after the "file:/" is a known valid file path
(it's Windows XP, but of course RR internal format) and this can be
proved by opening the file in text editor. I've tried putting 0, 1
and 2 '/' characters after "file:" but I always get "can't open
file". The docs are not explicit on this point, and I've run out of
guesses. What is the format supposed to be? And should I open the
file first (I assume not, as this isn't mentioned in the docs).
Sorry if everyone else knows the answer, but there it is...
just tested here on my PC and this works (here).
NO slash after "file:", at least on windows!:
...
put "file:C:/YourFirstDirectory/YourSecondDirectory/Mine not your
doc.text" into someFileDesignation
put url someFileDesignation into fld 1
...
## changed some text and then:
put fld 1 into url someFileDesignation
...
No problems...
You HAVE write permission there, do you? ;-)
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
Regards
Klaus Major
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http://www.major-k.de
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