[PD] [textfile], DeLorean, and the effects of time travel on mental health.

Pierre Massat pimassat at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 13:45:05 CEST 2010


Hello List,

I badly need your help for i'm going totally nuts right now. I m trying to
use a [textfile] to save a series of values. I have 16 lines of 12 integers
to save each time (each txt file should only have 16 lines by 12 numbers).
The way i 'm going about performing this awfully difficult task is as
follows:
1) I first send a [write C:/....txt( to [texfile]
2) Then i send a [clear( to [textfile]
3) And finally i send my 16 lines using a [add 0 0 0 0 0 0.....0(

Now, the issue is that i know for sure that what comes out of the [add 0 0 0
0( is right (i check with a print in the console), yet [textfile] freaks out
somehow and consistently saves the previous list to the current txt file.
Say, i have 16 lines of 0's. If i write to textfile1.txt, i will not get 16
lines of 0's, even though that's what i'll have printed in the console. Now
if i change this to 16 lines of 1's, and if i write to textfile2.txt, i will
get all 0's in textfile2.txt, and 1's in the console.

I just don't know what's happening here. I checked that the way i gather the
integers to be saved is right. The only solution that i can think of at the
moment would be to systematically write to two files, the first of which
would be useless. I know there has to be something cleaner. I guess i don't
really understand how [textfile] works!

Pierre
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