WRITEFILE - Write string to specified text file

WRITEFILE Write string to specified text file

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Syntax:	WRITEFILE	[ file name ] [ string_out ] [ /options ]
Arguments:	[ file name ]	A variable or string to specify the file name to write to; if no path is defined Robo-FTP’s working folder is used; if the file does not exist, it is created.
	[ string_out ]	A variable or string to be written to the file.
Options:	/append	Append the string to the existing file.

This script command writes characters to the specified text file. This command is oriented toward writing a complete record of printable characters, terminated by a carriage-return/ line-feed, to a file. The scope of this command (and the READFILE command) is not to provide full function file I/O to your script files, but rather to provide temporary storage for small amounts of information for use by a script file or an external program.

By default WRITEFILE either creates a new file or over-writes an existing file with what is written. You may use the /append option to add records to an existing file.

Consider the following example.

;; write a string supplied by an operator to a file

PROMPT user_id "Enter your Used ID"

WRITEFILE "user_info.txt" user_id /append

Related Command(s): READFILE, WORKINGDIR