How do I write to a text file?

[Ted Sullivan]

Question
Can I use actions in AutoPlay Media Studio to write out to a textfile?

Answer
The action TextFile.WriteFromString() can be used to write to a textfile. There are three options that should be looked at:

• We can create a new text file and write our data to it.
• Data can be "added on" to the end of an existing text file, this is known as "appending" to a text file.
• Data in an existing text file can be overwritten.

For example the following action will write out "Hello, my name is John Doe" to a text file, overwriting its contents.

TextFile.WriteFromString("c:\\\\text.txt", "Hello, my name is John Doe", false);

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