read add to file

[djack2]

Is there a way to read a file, write new info to the beginning and end of the file and then save it? I know how to append to the file, but I need to add to the top of the file also. Any suggestions?

 

[iqof188]

My best bet would be to first READ the file, capture the contents in a variable (for example MyContent). Then manipulate the variable MyContent, and write the manipulated file to the filesystem. Sounds complicated, but check out the following code:


<cfset TheFile=&quot;C:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\MyText.txt&quot;>

<cfset TextToAdd=&quot;Hello World!&quot;>
<cfset BR=&quot;#Chr(13)#&quot;&amp;&quot;#Chr(10)#&quot;>

<cffile action=&quot;READ&quot;
file=&quot;#TheFile#&quot;
variable=&quot;MyContent&quot;>

<cfset MyNewContent=&quot;#TextToAdd#&quot;&amp;&quot;#BR#&quot;&amp;&quot;#MyContent#&quot;>

<cffile action=&quot;WRITE&quot;
file=&quot;#TheFile#&quot;
output=&quot;#MyNewContent#&quot;
addnewline=&quot;Yes&quot;>

Beautiful isn't it? ;-)
<webguru>iqof188</webguru>

 

[djack2]

Ok, thanks. I'll give that a try.

 

[djack2]

That code worked great! You just saved me about 2 days of work. I had to manually edit a few thousand files and this
just helped me automate the process. I used a loop and cfdirectory to automatically open and edit each file in each directory and insert additional code. Once again, thanks for your help iqof188.