openTextWriter()

This function opens a file as a text file for writing purposes. The function returns a TextWriter object. This must be closed at the end.

openTextWriter(filename, encoding, append)

filename

String that represents the name of the file to open.

encoding

String specifying the encoding to use (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.)..

append

Boolean parameter that specifies whether the file pointer should initially be positioned at the end of the existing file (append mode) or at the beginning of the file (overwrite mode).

Example

In the following example, the openTextWriter() function is used to open the newly created temporary file for writing:

var fileIn = openTextReader(data.filename);
var tmp = createTmpFile();
var fileOut = openTextWriter(tmp.getPath());
var line;

while ((line = fileIn.readLine())!=null){   
    fileOut.write(line.replace((subject),""));   
    fileOut.newLine();
}

fileIn.close();
fileOut.close();
deleteFile(data.filename);
tmp.move(data.filename);
tmp.close();