Suggestion - Improve text streaming

Hi David et al,

I think the current Read File component is great, but it seems to be missing a friend. The current practice of streaming content by the Panel offer too little option. For example I would expect a WriteTxtFile tool, would take data like panels, and write it to a location (file path can be defined parametrically), write enable toggle, file exist check etc.

Because some of the time writing to a text file is preferred and that streaming content is not desired (which could accidentally overwrite my previous data). So a WriteTxtFile and StreamTxtFile could be two different component. So we could formally do the operation but not restricted to relying on the Panel.

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Permalink Reply by Victor Leung on January 27, 2011 at 7:47am

I solved the problem somehow by writting a short VB component:

If (activate = True)

Dim writer As StreamWriter = _

New StreamWriter(path)

For Each line As String In lines

writer.WriteLine(line)

writer.Close()
A = "File written to " & path & " at " & now()

Else

A = "Not activated"

End If

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 27, 2011 at 8:06am

Hi Victor,

it could be even shorter:

If (activate) Then

IO.File.WriteAllText(path, String.Join(Environment.NewLine, lines.ToArray()))

A = "File written to " & path & " at " & DateTime.Now

Else

A = "Not activated"

End If

But I like the idea of a dedicated file writing component. It probably makes a lot of sense to add one.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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Permalink Reply by Victor Leung on January 27, 2011 at 8:32am

Thankyou for your reply David. I'm happy you agree with me.

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Permalink Reply by Archi_made on December 7, 2011 at 8:30am

Hi,

I'm Phd student in architecture and i'm trying to modify a text file. I try to create the same component, but i have always an error, please could you send me this component in a GrassHopper File.

Thank you

Best regards