help reading a text file

[Mark Wieder]

Jon-

Sunday, June 5, 2005, 8:52:55 AM, Alex wrote:

AT>    put URL ("file:" & fName) into f

AT> "URL" acts at higher precedence than "&" does !?

Exactly. You need to tell the URL operator where to stop parsing.
What's happening without the parentheses is

put URL "file:" into f -- which is empty
put fName after f -- there's your filename

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-Mark Wieder
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