<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>openOutAppend(String) -- open an output file for appending</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="___Option.html">next</a> | <a href="_open__Out_lp__String_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="___Option.html">forward</a> | <a href="_open__Out_lp__String_rp.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>openOutAppend(String) -- open an output file for appending</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>openOutAppend fn</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Function: <a href="_open__Out__Append_lp__String_rp.html" title="open an output file for appending">openOutAppend</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>fn</tt>, <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___File.html">file</a></span>, an open output file whose filename is <tt>fn</tt></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : g = openOut "test-file" o1 = test-file o1 : File</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : g << "hi there" << endl << close o2 = test-file o2 : File</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : h = openOutAppend "test-file" o3 = test-file o3 : File</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : h << "ho there" << endl << close o4 = test-file o4 : File</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i5 : get "test-file" o5 = hi there ho there</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i6 : removeFile "test-file"</pre> </td></tr> </table> <p>A filename starting with <tt>~/</tt> will have the tilde replaced by the user's home directory.</p> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_open__In_lp__String_rp.html" title="open an output file">openIn</a> -- open an output file</span></li> <li><span><a href="_open__In__Out.html" title="open an input output file">openInOut</a> -- open an input output file</span></li> <li><span><a href="_open__Out_lp__String_rp.html" title="open an output file">openOut</a> -- open an output file</span></li> <li><span><a href="___File.html" title="the class of all files">File</a> -- the class of all files</span></li> <li><span><a href="_get.html" title="get the contents of a file">get</a> -- get the contents of a file</span></li> <li><span><a href="_remove__File.html" title="remove a file">removeFile</a> -- remove a file</span></li> <li><span><a href="___File_sp_lt_lt_sp__Thing.html" title="print to a file">File << Thing</a> -- print to a file</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>