DWfile.write()

Availability

Dreamweaver 2.

Description

This function writes the specified string to the specified file. If the specified file does not yet exist, it is created.

Arguments

fileURL, text, {mode}

Returns

A Boolean value: true if the string is successfully written to the file; false otherwise.

Example

The following code attempts to write the string "xxx" to the mydata.txt file and displays an alert message if the write operation succeeds. It then tries to append the string "aaa" to the file and displays a second alert if the write succeeds. After executing this script, the mydata.txt file contains the text xxxaaa and nothing else.

var fileURL = "file:///c|/temp/mydata.txt";
if (DWfile.write(fileURL, "xxx")){
   alert("Wrote xxx to " + fileURL);
}
if (DWfile.write(fileURL, "aaa", "append")){ 
   alert("Appended aaa to " + fileURL);
}


 

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