would someone give me a MPL line that simply writes a line of text to a .txt file? i.e. 'fang-castro is so lazy' > welcome.txt

will it need a

Uses
ANYTHING;

?

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would someone give me a MPL line that simply writes a line of text to a .txt file? i.e. 'fang-castro is so lazy' > welcome.txt

I suggest you grab Black Panthers MPL lessons; they are available on 2o in the RCS Mystic Mods File Area...

If I remember correctly, file handling starts as Lesson 9 and is covered in the next 3 Lessons after that. He explains how to write to filename.txt first, and then goes on to show both reading, writing and handling text and binary files.

If I remember correctly, you have to OPEN, WRITE and CLOSE a file using:

fAssign
fWrite
fClose

There is a format in paranthesis after the commands, and while you're just asking to write ONE thing to a text, you can use variables so a user can give input, or you can pull data to write from... anywhere.

If you want to really understand file handling, I really suggest those 3 Lessons by BP.



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On 27 Oct 2021, paulie420 said the following...

would someone give me a MPL line that simply writes a line of text to .txt file? i.e. 'fang-castro is so lazy' > welcome.txt

I suggest you grab Black Panthers MPL lessons; they are available on 2o
in the RCS Mystic Mods File Area...
If I remember correctly, file handling starts as Lesson 9 and is covered in the next 3 Lessons after that. He explains how to write to
filename.txt first, and then goes on to show both reading, writing and handling text and binary files.

perfect! i UL'd the 20 for Beers color ascii while I was there...

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Hello fang-castro!

27 Oct 21 09:03, you wrote to All:

would someone give me a MPL line that simply writes a line of text to
a .txt file? i.e. 'fang-castro is so lazy' > welcome.txt

will it need a

Uses
ANYTHING;

Var
fptr : File
Begin
fAssign(fptr,'welcome.txt)
fReWrite(fptr) //will recreate the file each time it's run
WriteLn(fptr,'fang-castro is so lazy')
fClose(fptr)
End

If you have an existing file you'd like to edit, you could use reset(fptr) which will just open that file. You could also use append(fptr), which would append the line to the end of the current file.

Hope this helps. :)


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Hello paulie420!

27 Oct 21 15:35, you wrote to fang-castro:

would someone give me a MPL line that simply writes a line of
text to a .txt file? i.e. 'fang-castro is so lazy' > welcome.txt

I suggest you grab Black Panthers MPL lessons; they are available on
2o in the RCS Mystic Mods File Area...

I should probably rewrite those, so they don't sound like they are just taking jabs at you. ;) I know how much you loved trying to work with files. :)

If I remember correctly, you have to OPEN, WRITE and CLOSE a file
using:

fAssign

This will assign the filename to the pointer variable. After this, you need to actually open the file using fReWrite, fReset, Append, etc.

fWrite

This writes the information to the file. You can also just use WriteLn or Write, with the file pointer variable. ie WriteLn(fptr,'This is some text')

fClose

Always want to close the file when your done with it. :)


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fAssign(fptr,'welcome.txt)

OOoooooooooooOooo! ;)

thanks a million!!

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On 27 Oct 2021, fang-castro said the following...

would someone give me a MPL line that simply writes a line of text to a .txt file? i.e. 'fang-castro is so lazy' > welcome.txt

You don't need MPL for that, just do a menu option like

Command | (DD) External application
Data | echo "fang-castro is so lazy" > welcome.txt

Job done.

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On 28 Oct 2021, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

On 27 Oct 2021, fang-castro said the following...

would someone give me a MPL line that simply writes a line of text to .txt file? i.e. 'fang-castro is so lazy' > welcome.txt

You don't need MPL for that, just do a menu option like
Command | (DD) External application
Data | echo "fang-castro is so lazy" > welcome.txt
Job done.

This is true! I could even make a shell script to delete the old welcome.txt before writing a new one. Or insert another (DD) command. Part of the fun is all the different ways to do stuff! My goal is to learn/practice MPL and I imagine there will be a lot of file touching =) Thanks for the advice tho!

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perfect! i UL'd the 20 for Beers color ascii while I was there...

Thank you, again. I've started using your ASCII as an advert on socials. I totally dig it!



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If I remember correctly, you have to OPEN, WRITE and CLOSE a file using:

fAssign

This will assign the filename to the pointer variable. After this, you need to actually open the file using fReWrite, fReset, Append, etc.

fWrite

This writes the information to the file. You can also just use WriteLn or Write, with the file pointer variable. ie WriteLn(fptr,'This is some

fClose

text') Always want to close the file when your done with it. :)

Black Panther

Ahhh, master - I missed fReset - or ReWrite/Append... :P

I'll have you know that I *am* writing simple text to files these days... and don't mind the [small,fun] jabs that are in your lessons... they REALLY gave me a better understanding of MPL and writing real-w0rld mods for my system.

Since, [and while we were still at it, even] I've had a lot of success using actual Pascal documentation - for larger questions, I can usually get from point A to point B with a little bit of wiggling around by using FP docs.



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would someone give me a MPL line that simply writes a line of text to a .t file? i.e. 'fang-castro is so lazy' > welcome.txt

There is also a read to use command in MPL, called AppendText(). ;)

AppendText (FileName, Text: String)
This procedure will append a single line of text onto a text file. If the
file does not exist, it will be created. Example:
AppendText("c:\test.txt', 'This is a line of text added to test.txt!')

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This is true! I could even make a shell script to delete the old welcome.txt before writing a new one. Or insert another (DD) command.

You wouldn't need to delete the old file, as the redirection `>` is to replace, not append, so by definition you'll be creating a new file each time.

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On 28 Oct 2021, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

This is true! I could even make a shell script to delete the old welcome.txt before writing a new one. Or insert another (DD) command.

You wouldn't need to delete the old file, as the redirection `>` is to replace, not append, so by definition you'll be creating a new file each time.

I forgot to add that if you use the redirection `>>` (double >) then that is what makes it append.

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On 28 Oct 2021, xqtr said the following...

There is also a read to use command in MPL, called AppendText(). ;)

Thanks! Everyone has been extremely helpful!

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On 28 Oct 2021, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

This is true! I could even make a shell script to delete the old welcome.txt before writing a new one. Or insert another (DD) command.

You wouldn't need to delete the old file, as the redirection `>` is to replace,

sometimes i smoke too much weed |02_\|/_ |7 thanks!

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You wouldn't need to delete the old file, as the redirection `>` is to replace, not append, so by definition you'll be creating a new file each time.

Or, one could use ">>" to append; if I remember correctly.



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Var
fptr : File
Begin
fAssign(fptr,'welcome.txt)
fReWrite(fptr) //will recreate the file each time it's run
WriteLn(fptr,'fang-castro is so lazy')
fClose(fptr)
End

I had to modify above to below for it work... Keeping me on my toes.

Var
fptr : File
Begin
fAssign(fptr,'welcome.txt',66)
fReWrite(fptr) //will recreate the file each time it's run
fWriteLn(fptr,'fang-castro is so lazy')
fClose(fptr)
End

// If you have an existing file you'd like to edit, you could use reset(fptr) // which will just open that file. You could also use append(fptr), which would // append the line to the end of the current file.

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Hello fang-castro!

29 Oct 21 13:37, you wrote to me:

Var
fptr : File
Begin
fAssign(fptr,'welcome.txt)
fReWrite(fptr) //will recreate the file each time
it's run
WriteLn(fptr,'fang-castro is so lazy')
fClose(fptr)
End

I had to modify above to below for it work... Keeping me on my toes.

Var
fptr : File
Begin
fAssign(fptr,'welcome.txt',66)
fReWrite(fptr) //will recreate the file each time it's run
fWriteLn(fptr,'fang-castro is so lazy')
fClose(fptr)
End

Ah, sorry about that. I've been spending time working in FreePascal lately. ;)


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On 29 Oct 2021, Black Panther said the following...

I had to modify above to below for it work... Keeping me on my toes.

Ah, sorry about that. I've been spending time working in FreePascal lately. ;)

I literally thought it was a test. ;)

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