WriteAllText

Writes text to a file.

Syntax

FileSystem.WriteAllText(File, Text, Append)

FileSystem.WriteAllText(File, Text, Append, Encoding)

Parameters

	File	String, input
		Name and path of the file to read.
	Text	String, input
		Text to be written to the file.
	Append	Boolean, input
		True to append to the contents of the file; False to overwrite the contents of the file.
	Encoding	Character encoding to use when writing to the file. Default is ASCII.

Remarks

	Encoding
	ASCII	Gets an encoding for the ASCII (7-bit) character set.
	Unicode	Gets an encoding for the UTF-16 format using the little endian byte order.
	UTF32	Gets an encoding for the UTF-32 format using the little endian byte order.
	UTF7	Gets an encoding for the UTF-7 format.
	UTF8	Gets an encoding for the UTF-8 format.

Examples

This example writes a text string to the specified file, overwriting any existing text in the file::

Sub Main()

FileSystem.WriteAllText "C:\Users\Public\My Directory\Test.txt", "This is new text to be added.", False

End Sub

This example writes the names of the files in the Flex Terminal Emulator install folder to FileList.txt, inserting a carriage return between each for better readability:

Sub Main()

For Each foundFile In GetFiles("C:\Program Files\FlexSoftware\FlexTerm")

foundFile = foundFile & vbCrLf

WriteAllText "C:\Users\Public\FileList.txt", foundFile, True

End Sub