Read/Write help

[Azzy]

can someone tell me why this code isn't working?

code:

open : fileNo, "IDS" , write write : fileNo, ID, name close : fileNo open : fileNo, "IDS" , read, put read : fileNo, ID put : fileNo, ID read : fileNo, name put : fileNo, name close : fileNo

[StrikerMagazine]

Hm.. when you opened with fileNo for the second time, you said you were going to use it for both 'read' and 'put'.. i dont think you're allowed to do that.. every time you want to get from the file instead of output, you could close and reopen it. i guess so it would look like this

code:

open : fileNo, "IDS" , write write : fileNo, ID, name close : fileNo open : fileNo, "IDS" , read read : fileNo, ID close : fileNo open : fileNo, "IDS", put put : fileNo, ID close :fileNo open :fileNo, "IDS",read read : fileNo, name close : fileNo open :fileNo, "IDS", put put : fileNo, name close : fileNo

[Tony]

I think there's a tutorial somewhere on reading/writing to a file.

you can also open the file for "search", and can find a point from which you want to read/write, instead of reopening the file.