What is wrong in this simple "OpenFile" instruction?

[Akshay07]

Hi all,

I looked at the help (that's how I found the instruction) but the text file will not open!

FileOpen("Results.txt", 2)

The script is located in the same folder than the txt file.

I also tried (with the script in a different folder)

FileOpen("C:\test\Results.txt", 2)

But it is not working

[Jos]

It will open fine to be able to read the records with FileRead(), but you probably want to run the application that normally opens the file.

Look at ShellExecute()

Jos

Edited December 20, 2009 by Jos

[Akshay07]

It will open fine to be able to read the records with FileRead(), but you probably want to run the application that normally opens the file.

Look at ShellExecute()

Jos

Thanks, I will give it a try.

Edit: it works!

Is there also a way to force a .txt file to be opened with notepad in case the user has another text editor?

Edited December 20, 2009 by Akshay07

[trancexx]

It will open fine to be able to read the records with FileRead(), but you probably want to run the application that normally opens the file.

Look at ShellExecute()

Jos

How did you figure that out?

That's brilliant.

[omikron48]

Is there also a way to force a .txt file to be opened with notepad in case the user has another text editor?

Run("notepad.exe textfile.txt")

[Akshay07]

Thanks!!!