copy text from .txt file without opening

[triken3]

hello i want to copy the text inside the .txt file without opening it. but my code is not working

$file = @DesktopDir & "\t.txt"
FileWrite($file, Chr(1) & Chr(3))

when i paste it on other notepad it is not copied..

[Palestinian]

FileWrite

Write text/data to the end of a previously opened file.

[triken3]

 

 

tnx for the very helpful answer. it's really answer me

[Palestinian]

Wasn't an answer, wasn't meant to "answer" you, was meant to show you what you are doing wrong, which in your case is basically everything, search the forums, read the help file, try coming up with something better then you will get ways of doing things the right way, you won't get answers for questions that are never asked in the 1st place.

[mikell]

The helpfile also says

FileWrite

If a filename is given rather than a file handle, the file will be opened and closed during the function call. (...)  filename will be created if it does not already exist.

Therefore this code works

$file = @DesktopDir & "\t.txt"
FileWrite($file, "this is a test")

even if this can't be considered as good practice 

[BrewManNH]

To the OP, your script doesn't show that the file is being copied, you're just writing two characters (unprintable characters at that) to the end of the file.

What EXACTLY are you attempting to do?

[triken3]

Wasn't an answer, wasn't meant to "answer" you, was meant to show you what you are doing wrong, which in your case is basically everything, search the forums, read the help file, try coming up with something better then you will get ways of doing things the right way, you won't get answers for questions that are never asked in the 1st place.

You're doing the wrong way of showing that someone is wrong.. you didn't even show "HOW" the seeker is wrong.. you're just telling the meaning of the function..

I know that ,

FileWrite

Write text/data to the end of a previously opened file.

but didn't expect that you can't write "ctrl a" and "ctrl c"  at the end, since it is also has ASCII equivalent in the form of chr in autoIT.

Maybe its because its a control function..

you can just say that i can't do a control function at the end..

BUT You're just copying and pasting here the meaning of FileWrite functions

It is so annoying, did you know it?

[triken3]

To the OP, your script doesn't show that the file is being copied, you're just writing two characters (unprintable characters at that) to the end of the file.

What EXACTLY are you attempting to do?

I thought that it will copy to the clipboard the text inside if a follow up the filewrite with control function of "ctrl a" and then "ctrl c". but it didn't work

i just wanted to copy the text inside .txt file without opening it

I also tried the run or execute function in HIDE mode but instead of copying the content of .txt file, it is just performing a "ctrl a" and "ctrl c" outside the file

[BrewManNH]

FileOpen, FileRead, FileClose. FileOpen creates a handle to the file, FileRead reads it into an array, FileClose closes the handle. After the text is in a variable, what you do with it is up to what you need to do with it.

[triken3]

FileOpen, FileRead, FileClose. FileOpen creates a handle to the file, FileRead reads it into an array, FileClose closes the handle. After the text is in a variable, what you do with it is up to what you need to do with it.

tnx i alredy done using fileread and filewrite.

$file = @DesktopDir & "\t.txt"
    $file2 = @DesktopDir & "\s.txt"

    $file1 = FileRead($file)
    FileWrite($file2,$file1)

it copies the text from t.txt to s.txt without opening the two text file

[BrewManNH]

You could also just use FileCopy instead of going about it in such a convoluted way.