Need help with writing to a file

Fernando Raineri raineri at mail.chem.sunysb.edu
Sun Jun 1 12:40:02 EDT 2003


Hello again.

 > The above goal is working. But I would also like to write
 > the information contained in the variable theText into a file,
 > say "try.txt" in the Desktop.
 > This I can't find the way to do it. I have tried the line

 > put theText into URL "file:/fallRains/Users/fernando/Desktop/try.txt".

 > I have also tried the "open file to write; write to file; close file"
 > approach, but also can't make it to work.

 > Perhaps there is some setting that I'm missing, or there is something
 > very fundamental that I'm not doing correctly (like the filePath 
style,
 > perhaps?).

I just found my error; it was in the filePath, which I was
writing with the hard drive. But when I use

put theText into URL "file:/Users/fernando/Desktop/try.txt"

it works.

I apologize for my confusion.

Thank you.
Fernando




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