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

[Pierre Massat]

It's funny how small victories over oneself can make one's day!
That's alright, i 've just found out that all i need to do i send the
[write( message last.
Sorry...

Pierre

2010/7/18 Pierre Massat <pimassat at gmail.com>

> 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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