OpenEuphoria

Re: finding file in program with created filename

• Posted by "Carl R. White" <euphoria at cyreksoft.yorks.com> Jan 12, 2004
• 586 views

sixs wrote:

> If I run the statement
>  
>             Handler =
> open("C:\\Downloads\\abgte2\\DATA\\filename"&".txt","r")
> I get the file not found, -1.

If 'filename' is a variable then your code shoould look more like this:
open("C:\\Downloads\\abgte2\\DATA\\" & filename & ".txt","r")

Notice that 'filename' is located completely outside the double quotes.

Your original code is actually trying to open:
    C:\Downloads\abgte2\DATA\filename.txt

...where the phrase "filename" is literally part of the name of the file 
you are trying to open, and not the value of the variable by the same name.

HTH,
Carl

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