Read from file, then display results

[Marian Petrides]

Okay. Thanks. I'm a bit obtuse at this late hour....

(Repeat after me:  go to bed, go to bed ;-)

M
On Jul 8, 2004, at 1:20 AM, Mark Brownell wrote:

> on 7/7/04 9:57 PM, Marian Petrides at mpetrides at earthlink.net wrote:
>>> on mouseUp
>>> global gFilePath
>>> answer file "select a file"
>>> if it contains ".txt" then
>>> put URL ("file:" & it) into AddListContents
>>> put it into gFilePath
>>> else
>>> answer " Not a text file"
>>> exit mouseUp
>>> end if
>>> end mouseUp
>> Your second example appears, instead, to be an example of how to WRITE
>> to a file. Or am I simply befuddled at this late hour (nearly 1 AM, my
>> time)??
>>
>> M
>
> This part is an open file handler that is different from write to or 
> read
> from methods. I just added the save method for the heck of it using a 
> global
> variable to save to the gFilePath without opening a file selection 
> window
> first. Just showing you stuff... look at "answer file" and "ask file" 
> in the
> docs.
>
> Mark
>
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