----------------------------------- baby_bubblz Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:13 pm transfering text from one document to another ----------------------------------- hey, can someone please help me with a problem i have? it would be great..thanks! question: how do you take text from a txt document (file)and transfer it into another txt (file2), but change it so that there are only 7 words on each line? i know everything up to the part where you change the style of the text, i already declared the word and counter variable get: file2, word counter := counter + 1 if counter = 7 then put '\n' how do you restart the counter? ----------------------------------- Cervantes Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:21 pm Re: transfering text from one document to another ----------------------------------- get: file2, word counter := counter + 1 if counter = 7 then put '\n' how do you restart the counter? counter := 0 It looks like, in your code, you are getting data from file2. Maybe I misunderstood something, but aren't you supposed to write data to file2, and get the data from file1? ----------------------------------- baby_bubblz Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:32 pm ----------------------------------- oh..yes it's supposed to be file1, sorry for the mistake ----------------------------------- baby_bubblz Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:46 pm ----------------------------------- get: file1, word counter := counter + 1 if counter = 7 then put '\n' put: file2, word counter := 0 end if is this correct? ----------------------------------- Cervantes Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:29 pm ----------------------------------- Well, I haven't had much experience with files in Turing, but I don't think that's going to work. The reason? Look at the put statement. You're not putting the '\n' to file2, you're outputting it to the screen. :wink: Also, I don't know whether your method of putting a '\n' is viable. It may work, it may not. I'm not sure, it depends on how Turing deals with that character. In any case, try it out, and see what you get :) Lastly: [code][/code]tags are nice