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stoan YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Saving to text file Apr 23rd, 2007, 3:49pm   I have been having problems saving variables to a text document, so I was wondering if anyone could give an example of code for saving a string variable to a text document.

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: Saving to text file Reply #1 - Apr 23rd, 2007, 7:09pm   saveStrings() has all you need .. F

tomatoe YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Re: Saving to text file Reply #2 - Apr 27th, 2007, 5:50pm   for: saveStrings("file.txt", me); i get: No applicable overload for a method with signature "saveStrings(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)" was found in type "processing.core.PApplet". Perhaps you wanted the overloaded version "void saveStrings(java.io.OutputStream $1, java.lang.String[] $2);" instead? what am i doing wrong?

JohnG Ex Member	Re: Saving to text file Reply #3 - Apr 27th, 2007, 6:47pm   You have to save an array of strings, not a single one. So you need: Code: String[] output=new String[0]; output=append(output,me); saveStrings("file.txt",output);

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: Saving to text file Reply #4 - Apr 27th, 2007, 10:20pm   or use the PrintWriter example: http://processing.org/reference/PrintWriter.html if you want to write multiple lines without first shoving them into an array.