USING .TXT IN AN APP

[cyrille de brébisson]

Hello,

Actually, what you are doing when you do:
AFiles("DATO.txt"):="1"
Is that you are storing a string object in a file called DATO.txt...

You can see that by doing
R->B(AFilesB("DATO.txt", 0, 10)) which will return {#FFh,#FFh,#12h,#CDh,#1h,#0h,#0h,#0h,#31h,#0h}
Here, the FFFF means nothing, the 1 is a flag, the 2 means string, CD is a pad, 1, 0, 0, 0 is the size of the string in characters and 31, 0 is the character 1 in 16 bit wchar...

If you saved something else than a string (a number for example), you would see the binary representation of that number.

If you really wanted to create a text file, you would need to do it using the AFilesB (B stands for binary) in order to save your data.
Alternatively, you could do it with a mix of AFiles and ABilesB, doing something like:
AFiles(name):= string; AFilesB(name):= AFilesB(name, 8, 10000);
which will allow you to use the AFiles function to do the string to number conversion, and then use AFilesB to 'shift' the data down and remove the string header (althrough, come to thing about it, you might need to save the data comming from AFilesB(name, 8, 10000) in a temp var, then delete the file and then write it back)...

Cyrille

Cyrille