write file using WScript.shell

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Robin Carlo Catacutan picture Robin Carlo Catacutan · Dec 11, 2011 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

How can I write text files using WScript I'm really new on this that's why I cannot give some details. I want to write a log file that can be stored in c://users/user/appdata/local

my sample code, using FileSystemObject

function WriteFile() 
{
   var fso  = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); 
   var fh = fso.CreateTextFile("d:\\Test.txt", true); 
   fh.WriteLine("Some text goes here..."); 
   fh.Close(); 
}

<body onload = "WriteFile();">
</body>

it does return in d: but in local c: it wont.

Answer

Teemu picture Teemu · Jan 28, 2012

You are missing one important parameter in fh. The right code is:

var fh = fso.CreateTextFile("d:\\Test.txt", 2, true);

whereas 2 is a bytecode, which tells to fso to write a file. For reading value is 1, and for appending value is 8.

This is clear to you by now, I suppose.

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