hi all, if I want to save my output 2

[RajVerma]

hi all, if I want to save my output file in a format that can be read by a widows machine directly, without any manual conversion, what shud I do?
thanq,
Raj.

 

[ulis]

  set fp [open $myfile a]
  fconfigure $fp -translation binary
  puts -nonewline "$mystring\r\n"
  close $fp

This code insures that the proper end of line is written to the file.

HTH

ulis

 

[AviaTraining]

Actually, ulis, a better way is to use the fconfigure command to explicitly tell Tcl what end-of-line sequence to use. The fconfigure -translation option determines how end-of-line sequences are handled, both for input and output. The default is "auto" -- Tcl automatically handles any end-of-line sequence as it reads, even if it changes while reading the channel; the proper output sequence is determined automatically based on the platform on which the script is executing.

However, you can explicity set the handling by assigning a new value to fconfigure -translation. If you assign a single value, it affects both reading and writing on the channel. But you can also provide a 2-element list to specify different handling for reading and writing.

So, to configure a channel to handle end-of-line conversion automatically on input, but to always write out carriage return-linefeed (\r\n) combinations on output (the Windows standard), you could do this:

set fid [open myfile.txt a+]
fconfigure $fid -translation {auto crlf}
puts $fid "Here's a line"
puts $fid "Here's another"

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[ulis]

Thanks for the point, Ken.

ulis