Editing a text file

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Jul 13 2011, 3:06 pm
Is there any way in the DM language to directly edit a text file? thanks!
Jul 13 2011, 5:07 pm
Try read: text2flie, file2text & shell
Jul 13 2011, 5:10 pm
In response to Prf X
text2file&file2text don't return exactly what I want, experimenting with shell.

any specific command I should use w/ shell?
Jul 13 2011, 5:14 pm
In response to Gigimoi
How are you wanting to edit the file?
Jul 13 2011, 5:15 pm
In response to Prf X
Replace all text within it with my own.
Jul 13 2011, 5:46 pm
In response to Gigimoi
Why not just delete it and recreate it then?
Jul 13 2011, 5:47 pm
In response to Gigimoi
Did you try to delete the file & write a new file with the same name?
Jul 13 2011, 5:57 pm
In response to Pyro_dragons
I'm not trying to write a new file, I want the text in the file to be my input.
Jul 13 2011, 6:19 pm
In response to Gigimoi
I don't thank you can only rewrite a file,
only del(old) and write(new)
Jul 13 2011, 6:21 pm
In response to Gigimoi
 
var/file_text = file2text("myfile.txt")
var/new_text = input("New text here","New text",file_text) as null|message
if(!new_text) return
fdel("myfile.txt") // to prevent appending as opposed to writing.
text2file(new_text,"myfile.txt")


file2text() and text2file() were exactly what you were looking for, I don't see how you thought otherwise.
Jul 14 2011, 6:55 am
In response to Nadrew
Thank you very much!
Final Code
        fdel("myfile.txt")
        fdel("launch.bat")
        text2file("@ echo off","myfile.txt")
        text2file("start /MAX C:\\MMDS\\src\\minecraft\\net\\minecraft\\src\\[verb_name]","myfile.txt")
        usr<<shell("REN.bat")
        sleep(5)
        usr<<shell("launch.bat")
        fdel("myfile.txt")
        fdel("launch.bat")