This tag refers to the process of writing text or data to a file.
Questions tagged [file-writing]
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Print all columns SAS with delimiter
I am trying to print out a delimited file, without having to specify all of the columns. I can get close, but the numeric columns are always quoted:
DATA _NULL_;
SET SASHELP.CARS (obs = 5 keep = Make Model EngineSize);
FILE "foo.csv" DSD…

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Proper way of waiting until a file is created
I have the following code:
// get location where application data director is located
var appData = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData);
// create dir if it doesnt exist
var folder = System.IO.Path.Combine(appData,…

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Python: write and read blocks of binary data to a file
I am working on a script where it will breakdown another python script into blocks and using pycrypto to encrypt the blocks (all of this i have successfully done so far), now i am storing the encrypted blocks to a file so that the decrypter can read…

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How to write data into .txt file in codeigniter
I have a folder in assets name is login.My doubt is what how to set the path.
$data=$id.'~'.$expense_type.'~'.$amount.'~'.$exp_date.'
'; $todate= date('Y-m-d'); echo $todate; if ( ! write_file('.../assets/login/log_'.$todate.'.txt',…
'; $todate= date('Y-m-d'); echo $todate; if ( ! write_file('.../assets/login/log_'.$todate.'.txt',…

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Special characters in filename java
I'm trying to write a file with special characters in filename, for examplo "tééé ê.mp3", but the filename always stay with "?" instead the character "é", I tried a several methods but i didn't found a solution:
String musicName = new String("tééé…

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Writing to disk gets slower over time with Node.js
I am trying to write large files (500 MByte) to disk using Node.js. I figured out that while the first few files are being written in a few seconds (typically, 3 to 5 seconds), starting with around the 10th file things tend to get slower (and it…

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Adjust Excel cell width to fit text with xlwt
I'm making a Python application that writes to Excel files. My problem is that, when I write data to a cell that is longer than the with of the cell, excel 'hides' it.
I was wondering how is it possible that the cell automatically adjust its width…

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Search and Replace a content in a file in JAVA
I have to edit the contents of a file and write the edited conted to another file.Here is the code iam using .
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class TestRef {
ArrayList lines = new ArrayList(); …

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Groovy script does not write file as UTF-8
I have the following piece of code:
def f = new File("test.txt")
f.write("test", "UTF-8")
When opening the file in Notepad++ (or any other editor) it is still in ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8. Opening the file in a hex editor it does not contain the…

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WSL2 Docker (compose) on /mnt/d is VERY SLOW
Running docker-compose (nginx/php-fpm) is very slow when the project files are on /mnt/d (e.g. D:\).
Installing a fresh Laravel installation took about 4 minutes as opposed to 20 seconds. Opening Laravel's homepage (freshly installed homepage) has a…

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How to make a custom print format?
I want to print some variables to a file in a custom table format and have the ability to add to the table without adding the header again and keeping previous information.
Here's my code:
import time as r
data = r.strftime("%d %m %Y %I %M")
with…

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Issues with creating an ElementTree object from scratch to write to an xml file
I'm working on a project that is currently having me parse some xml files for data and writing that edited data into a specific xml format. I'm also quite new to working with xml files, so bare with me with my lack of vocabulary.
My issue comes in…

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Modify Array Based on User Input
For my assignment, we are currently coding a hotel booking system. For each room booked I want to make it so that a room that was previously available when selected is eliminated from the array.
This is my array:
availableRooms[38, 48, 64, 89, 110,…

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Writing to a file parallely while processing in a loop in python
I have a CSV data of 65K. I need to do some processing for each csv line which generates a string at the end. I have to write/append that string in a file.
Psuedo Code:
for row in csv_data:
processed_string = ...
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Read and write a file offsite? (Replit)
so as the title says, I need to find a way to read and write a file offsite from Replit, so I can use it in Roblox for example (of course not only in Roblox).

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