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Re: simple question

• Posted by Sabal.Mike at notations.com Dec 19, 2002
• 411 views

There are actually 2 problems here.  First, buffer is never initialized.
 You should have a line near the beginning that reads buffer = "" or
buffer = {}.  As for the second problem that you stated, the solution
depends on whether you want one long string or a sequence of strings. 
If you want one long string, you should be using buffer = buffer & line.
 If you want a sequence of strings, you should have a loop to print
them:

for ctr = 1 to length(buffer) do
  printf(1,"%s\n",{buffer[ctr]})
end for

HTH,
Mike Sabal

>>> csaik2002 at yahoo.com 12/19/02 02:01PM >>>

Please bear with me, as I'm a brand spankin' new user
of Euphoria.

All I'm trying to do is read a text file into a
sequence, and then turn around and print the sequence
onscreen.  I'm using the following code:

sequence buffer
object line
integer fn

fn = open("c:\\filename.txt","r")
if fn = -1 then
	puts(1,"Couldn't open file\n")
	abort(1)
end if

while 1 do
	line = gets(fn)
	if atom(line) then
		exit
	end if
	buffer = append(buffer,line)
end while

printf(1,"%s",{buffer})

When I try to run the above, I get the following error
message:

"sequence found inside character string"

What am I doing wrong?