Writing to text file

[spuppett]

I am having a heck of a time with this. I am not a foxPro programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but I have a task to accoplish. I need to write some text from a table to a file. I am working with some legecy code that uses fcreate and the like, but no matter what I do the handle that comes back is always = -1. the ferror I get is a 5, which I believe means that there is a permission issue. The file is NOT read-only.

Here is the code that I have

  IF FILE(chkFile)
    handle = FOPEN(chkFile)
  ELSE
    handle = FCREATE(chkFile)
  ENDIF

then the error checking which is select case on FERROR().

This code has worked on in the pass and I changed nothing in this section before I tried testing out the program.

Is there another way to do this, or does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do about the file handle being -1?

 

[cricket]

Is your filename a variable rather than a character expression?

Change your code to this with the character delimiters '' added

IF FILE('chkFile')
handle = FOPEN('chkFile')
ELSE
handle = FCREATE('chkFile')
ENDIF

 

[spuppett]

Thanks for the response. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden it started working. I deleted the file this time and it worked. I tried that before but id didn't create it, but this time it did.

Thanks again.

 

[rgbean]

Note that you are limited to the DOS 8.3 file (and path) naming standard in FPD & FPW, no matter what OS you are running under.

Rick

 

[DSummZZZ]

Also note, especially during testing, that once you handle = FOPEN() or handle = FCREATE() a file, that file is open and must be closed with an FCLOSE(handle), CLOSE ALL or even QUIT before you can open it again.


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