aenhancers

Hi,
I have been using a dialog box to open a file and read from it.

var f=File.openDialog("select a file");
var ok=f.open("r");

This works great but now I want to have the filename in a variable instead of using a dialog box.

I thought it would be something like this below,

var f=File.open("test.txt");
var ok=f.open("r");

But it's not right.

Looking through docs, I cannot seem to find the correct syntax.

Thanks.

Phil

You have to specify the whole path:

var myFilePath = "C:/Temp";
var myFileName = "test.txt";

var myFile = new File(myFilePath + "/" + myFileName);
var fileOK = myFile.open("r");


Dan

Yep, I just put the test.txt in there as an example.

It was the "new" that I was missing.

Thanks once again Dan.

Phil

btw, the difference between adding the new and not is that if you have new File and the file does not exist then it will create a new file object if you don't add the new and the file doesn't exist you will get an error.

-Lloyd