Newbie again

[dhobbs]

All I want to do is open a text file and display it in a text field, modify it, then save it again. I can use the Answer command, but that gives me the path. How do I get the contents of the file? I've used Live code a long time ago (RunRev era), but the new dictionary is perplexing to me, and I can't remember how I loaded, searched, edited, and saved the text file. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[Klaus]

Hi dhobbs,

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## Load file into field:
...
answer file "Select text file:"
put IT into tFile

## User CANCELled
if the result = "cancel" then
   exit to top
end if

## Load file into field:
put url("file:" & tFile) into fld "your field here..."
...

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## Save field content to file:
...
put specialfolderpath("desktop") & "/your file.txt" into tFile
put fld "your field here..." into url("file:" & tFile)
...

Best

Klaus

[bogs]

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## Save field content to file:
...
put specialfolderpath("desktop") & "/your file.txt" into tFile
put fld "your field here..." into url("file:" & tFile)
...

Just to prevent some possible confusion, Klaus is using a direct save to the desktop in the above code, if you wanted to save it elsewhere, you'd have to use 'answer folder', if you wanted to save it back to where it came from, you could make tFile a script local variable.

You could also use a combination of the above in an 'if/then' branch off.

[dhobbs]

Perfect, thanks.
I totally forgot about the url keyword. Not particularly intuitive.
Appreciate it...