working with files

[David McFarlane]

Greg,

>I am wishing to use a text file for some temporary storage of some 
>experiment data to use in various other experiments.  I see hope to 
>open a new file and I think I have it down how to write to 
>it.  However I would like to delete the file when I am done with 
>it.  Does anyone know how I can go about doing that?

Hmm, I imagine you want to delete the file directly from your E-Prime 
program, rather than waiting and then just deleting it manually with 
Windows Explorer later.  If that is that case, then you want to look 
at the "Kill" topic in the online E-Basic Help.

BTW, that was a nice little puzzle -- I actually had to run a full 
search in the online E-Basic Help using the term "delete" in order to 
find the Kill topic, that was not the obvious answer (although in 
retrospect, that keyword is often enough used in systems as a command 
to delete files).

Of course, if it really is a temporary file then you might just use 
the same file name each time, leave the file in place, and just 
overwrite it for each new session.  That would spare you the extra 
work of deleting the file each time.  Just a thought.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


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