Writing text to a TXT file using javascript

[javarookie]

Hi, everyone. I need to write text to a TXT file. I'm running this script:

<script>
f=new File('c:\test.txt');
status=f.open('w');
f.write('test');
</script>

and I get an error: 'File' undefined.

What am I doing wrong? I got the example out of the book.

 

[drgenius]

As far as I know you can't write to files... (at least not to the user's harddrive) It's not a lie if YOU believe it ;-)

 

[trollacious]

Not knowing the name of the file you're trying to do this from, it appears that you're mixing Windows Scripting Host and HTML scripting, and that can't be done. If this in in an HTML page, you're limited to what HTML and Javascript allows. If this is a Windows Scriping Host file, then you'll need to declare the language in your script tag, and then instantiate the appropriate objects before you can write to a file. But the 2 don't mix. Windows Scripting Host is like batch files that are grown up, but a totally different subject from client-side scripting for web pages.