TextFileWrite

The TextFileWrite function will save some content to a text file.

Properties

File path

The full path to the file you wish to write to (i.e. c:\temp\filename.txt).

You can also set this property to the FileHandle of a FileOpen function when its 'Is text' option is checked.

Contents

The text to be written to file.

You can enter some text directly into this property, or you can reference a string type or anything else from your function that can be converted to a string.

Destination encoding

The encoding type to use when reading from the file.

Options:

  • Default
  • ANSI
  • ASCII
  • EBCDIC
  • Mac
  • OEM
  • Unicode
  • UTF8

The 'Default' option is the encoding used in your operating system.

File does not exist

Specify what to do if the output file does not exist.

Options:

  • Create file
  • Throw exception

File exists

What to do if the file already exists:

  • Append data will find the end of the file and add the data there.

  • Increment file name will add a number to the filename to make that name unique. This is a sequential number starting with 1.

  • Overwrite file will replace all content in the file with the new content.

  • Throw exception will stop the Function's processing and return an error.

Definition

TextFileWrite contains the file path of the file that has been written to.

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