TACL Reference Manual

UTILS:TACL Commands and Functions

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VARTOFILE Command

Use the VARTOFILE command to copy the data in a variable to a file.

variable-level

is the name of an existing variable level from which data is to be copied. It must not

be a DIRECTORY, a STRUCT, or a STRUCT item.

file-name

is the name of the file that is to receive the copy. If the file exists, it must be of a

type that can be written to by the sequential I/O (SIO) facility. The new data is

appended to the existing data. If the file does not exist, TACL creates an edit-

format file.

Considerations

•

Lines longer than 239 characters are truncated to 239 characters.

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For security, TACL makes a temporary copy of the variable while this command is

being executed.

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I/O is done in PLAIN format. This means that the internal representations of the

metacharacters [, |, and ] in TACL statements are not translated to their external

representations when written to the file.

VARTOFILE variable-level file-name