PROBLEMS WITH WRITE TO FILE

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/19/03 3:12 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:


> Must I delete the file entirely before 'overwriting'? This seems strange 
> and unneeded. Is there a better syntax?

Yes, there's better syntax. Besides the options others have mentioned, 
you can also specify:

  open file targetfile for write

By specifying "for write", all previous contents of the file will be 
overwritten by the new content.

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