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mminnder
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11 years ago
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Text Streams and Troubles

So, I'm currently making a program that checks a json returned from a web service against a local json, and if the local doesn't exist, than it should create it using the return. When I do this I want...
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    Philip_Baird
    11 years ago
    Hi Mike, no, you do not have to replace the single "\" s returned by Project.Path



    JScript uses the "\" character to escape special characters in a literal string, e.g. \t (tab) and \r (carriage return), therefore, "\\" is simply the escape sequence for "\"



    E.g. the literal string "C:\\MyFiles\\DemoFile.txt" evaluates to "C:\MyFiles\DemoFile.txt"



    For the case with Project.Path as it not a literal string, the escape sequence is not required, e.g. 



    Project.Path + "\\    JSON\\Returns\\test.txt" would evaluate to



    "C:\Users\Phil\Documents\TestComplete 9 Projects\TestProject1\JSON\Returns\test.txt"



    depending.of course, the actual path to the Project



    Phil
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mminnder
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago
Hey Phil,



I have been messing with it all day and tried the aqFile way recently, the result was "Unable to open the file"



It's terribly annoying how limited the information is in the debugging.