File Strings on one line as opposed to multiple?

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Guy Fawkes

(Posted 2011) [#1]

Hi all. How would I make the writeline format my text all on to one line as opposed to multiple lines?

Thank you! :)

Graythe

(Posted 2011) [#2]

WriteString is, possibly, what you want. Put all of you text into a string and then use writestring to commit the data. It is worthwile knowing that the data may not be written until the file is closed.

Guy Fawkes

(Posted 2011) [#3]

i need it to be pure text though

Graythe

(Posted 2011) [#4]

Then use writebytes

_PJ_	(Posted 2011) [#5]

I'm not sure why you would want it all pure text, since then there woudl; be no way to separate the individual strings (unless you knew in advance exactly how long wach would be)

For that reason, I would seriously recommend using the short-int length signifier of WriteString or a terminator of sorts.

However, for pure Ascii text ONLY, here:

Function WriteStringBytes(h_File%,s_String$)
	If (s_string="") Then Return
	Local n_IterChar
	For nIterChar=1 To Len(s_String)
		WriteByte h_file,Asc(Mid(s_string,nIterchar,1)) And 255
	Next
End Function

Matty

(Posted 2011) [#6]

You can use writeline, just pass it a single string...concatenate them into one string then write it.