Subj : Writing to a text file
To   : Lab Rat
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Feb 06 2014 05:46 pm

  Re: Writing to a text file
  By: Lab Rat to All on Thu Feb 06 2014 11:55 pm

 > Hi all,
 >
 > Unfortunately, Javascript isn't my first (programming) language and I'm
 > struggling to get to grips with creating a simple plain text file from a
 > script. I've spent hours staring at the JS Object Model Reference
 > (http://synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html) and I just cannot work it out.
 >
 > This is what I've got so far:
 >
 > var f = new File('test.txt');
 >     file.open('w');
 >         file.writeln('Line 1');
 >         file.writeln('Line 2');
 >     file.close();

"file" is not defined in that example. I think you meant to write f.open(), 
f.writeln(), and f.close().

 > I've tried the file.open(file_exists(file.name) ? 'r+':'w+'); line
 > mentioned in the documentation and I just cannot get this to work.

Replacing "file" with "f" in your example seems to work fine for me (creates a 
file "test.txt" with the 2 lines you have specified).

 > Any code suggestions would be welcome!

Your code looks fine (except for the file/f confusion I mentioned). It might be 
confusing to you that the file being created/written will be located in your 
Synchronet "ctrl" directory since you did not specify a full pathname for the 
file.

There are many examples in the exec/*.js files which open/modify files. You 
could look at those for some tips or inspiration as well.

                                            digital man

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