OpenEuphoria

Re: Using gets (0)

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Dec 17, 1997
• 697 views

At 04:30 PM 12/17/97 -0800, you wrote:
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>Sender:       Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS <EUPHORIA at
>MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>
>Poster:       Bob Hancock <bob at SPEED.NET>
>Subject:      Using gets (0)
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>  Hi:
>
>  I'm trying to prompt the user for an output filename, into which I will
>write data.

>  Anyone can show me what simple thing I'm missing?   Thanks.
>
>  -- Bob Hancock ,     [bob at speed.net]
>

Bob:

I think you need to remove the trailing linefeed (10) character that is
appended to the input string:

If you type hello.exe the sequence returned is
{104,101,108,108,111,46,101,120,101,10}
You get around this by saying: fn=fn[1..length(fn)-1]
which strips off the final byte.

then you can say:
ok=open(fn,"r")

and if you get a -1, then file wasn't found, else it was.
User does not have to enter double \\'s by the way. The single
ones work just fine.

Irv