Re: [q-lang-users] Another Simple Question

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

Larry Gregg <lg...@ac...> writes:

> People:
>
> I pretty much copied this from the help screen:
>
> def F = fopen c:\test\mytest.txt "w" ;
> fwrites F "Hello, world." ;
> fclose F;
>
> Why does it give me this error in Qpad?
>
> % C:\Program Files\QPAD\TEST\Filew01.q
> Error Filew01.q, line 1: parse error at or near symbol `:'
> Error Filew01.q, line 2: parse error at or near symbol `;'
> Error Filew01.q, line 3: parse error at or near symbol `;'
>
> The error message is not too helpful. Should the filename be in double
> quotes?

Yes, it's a string field. Also I think the \ should be doubled-up, as well.

> Are there some simple, complete, examples of file I/O?

<http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/qdoc/qdoc_12.html#SEC91> might be a
reasonable place to start.

HTH,

~Tim
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