Thanks Alain,
Why is it that if I explicitly want to open a file, I have to put quotes
around the name, but if I put the name in a variable, I do not need the
quotes?
Thank you again,
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alain Farmer" <alain_far...@yahoo.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: reading a file
replace:
put quote & it & quote into thisFile
with
put it into thisFile
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 6:03 PM, "la...@significantplanet.org"
<la...@significantplanet.org> wrote:
Hello,
Could anyone please explain why the following script does not work?
(It puts into the field the name of the selected file and not the contents
of the file.
on mouseUp
answer file "Select a file."
put quote & it & quote into thisFile
open file thisFile
read from file thisFile until EOF
put it into field myOutput
close file thisFile
end mouseUp
Thanks,
Larry
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