open and read commands

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Mike Fedkiw (Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:03:21 -0500):

> filepro 5.0.09
>
> I need to open a .txt file and read each line so I can compare to an  
>  existing filepro file.
>
> does anyone have an example of the syntax for the open and read   
> commands. I cant get past two lines of code without a syntax error.
>
> This is what I have. Syntax error at "open"
>
> aa="c:/jpgfile.wri"
> bb=open(aa,r)

I take it you don't have a field called "r" which contains the mode with
which you want to open the file?

You probably want:

     bb = open(aa,"r")

to open the file in read-only mode.

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