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String that represents the name of the file to open.

encoding

String specifying the encoding to use (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.)..

append

Boolean parameter that specifies whether the file pointer should initially be positioned at the

end of the existing file (append mode) or at the beginning of the file (overwrite mode).

Example

In the following example, the openTextWriter() function is used to open the newly created

temporary file for writing:

var fileIn = openTextReader(data.filename);

var tmp = createTmpFile();

var fileOut = openTextWriter(tmp.getPath());

var line;

while ((line = fileIn.readLine())!=null){

fileOut.write(line.replace((subject),""));

fileOut.newLine();

}

fileIn.close();

fileOut.close();

deleteFile(data.filename);

tmp.move(data.filename);

tmp.close();

TextWriter

The TextWriter object, returned by the openTextWriter() function, allows to open a text file, write

to it and close it.

Methods

The following table describes the methods of the TextWriter object.

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