Hello! First of many stupid questions 8-)

[SethMould]

Hello. I'm a Visual Basic coder with 30 years IT experience, mental issues, and senility.

I want to read from a file containing 4-letter words:

abed
abet
able...

into a String:

open file specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/CatsDogs.txt" for read
read from file specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/CatsDogs.txt" until eof
put it into tAnswer
answer tAnswer

No joy 8-(

[SparkOut]

If you are going to read in the whole file in one go, the simple syntax is

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put url ("file:" & specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/CatsDogs.txt") into tAnswer

[SethMould]

Ok Thanks. Will try that. Then I can Randomize an entry based on the length of tAnswer/4

[SethMould]

Nope. This doesn't work:

put url ("file:" & specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/CatsDogs.txt") into tAnswer
answer tAnswer

[SethMould]

OK worked it out. The FilePath was wrong. But I didn't get a "File Not Found" 8-(

[zaxos]

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open file specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/CatsDogs.txt" for read
put the result

this would tell you if the file was found or not, i think its empty if the file is found.

[Klaus]

Same for the URL syntax:
...
put url ("file:" & specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/CatsDogs.txt") into tAnswer
answer the result
...
"the result" will be empty on success!