Hi All,

Anyone know how to insert the above into a text file?

cheers
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How are you creating the file?
In JavaScript you need \n for newline and \r for carriage return. I just use \n unless it's a very specific format.

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Joe

Hi Joe,

\n did the trick, but I've run into a different problem now. I need to purge the contents of the textfile I'm writing to after it hits ten lines. Can you force the input past EOF then use an error handler?
Any help would be much appreciated.

How are you creating the file?

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Joe

The file isn't created each time, it is constantly there. But here's the code I use to write to it:

<script language = "javascript">
function openText(){
var TristateFalse = 0;
var ForAppending = 8;
myActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
file = myActiveXObject.GetFile("c:\\my file.txt");
text = file.OpenAsTextStream(ForAppending, TristateFalse);
text.Write(document.form1.yourName.value + ": " + document.form1.whatever.value);
text.Close();
}
</script>

Use the writeLine method to add lines, then you don't need to worry about the end-of-line character.
Do you want to append lines until it reaches ten lines and then end the file?
You can check the line count on opening with the line property. If it's greater than ten don't write anything.

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Joe

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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)

Yes, thats what I want to do, 10 lines, purge and then start again. Do you have an example of 'writeLine'?

Scripting Runtime Reference

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Joe