[Resolved] Saving a file AS-IS

[Tdata]

How would you save a file as-is? Basicly i want to create a text document and dump an array into it and it print out all the values then save. Ex.

Winners.txt
First prize:
$winners[0]
Runners up:
$winners[1]
$winners[2]
$winners[3]
$winners[4]
$winners[5]

 

[verballydecapitating]

Just build the string and write it to an open file stream.

string = "First prize:\n#{$winners[0]}\nRunners up:"
for i in 1..5
  string += "\n" + $winners[i]
end
file = File.new('Winners.txt', 'wb')
file.write(string)
file.close

 

[Tdata]

That just makes a solid line of text.

 

[linkz0r]

try calling each line at once

strings = []
strings.push "First prize:"
strings.push $winners[0]
strings.push "Runners Up:"
for i in 1..5
  strings.push $winners[i]
end
file = File.new("Winners.txt", "wb") # <- Important that it has that 'b'
for i in 0...strings.size
  file.write string[i]
end
file.close

 

[Tdata]

Same result.

 

[linkz0r]

My mistake, sorry. ^^ This works:

strings = []
strings.push "First prize:\n"
strings.push $winners[0] + "\n"
strings.push "Runners Up:\n"
for i in 1..5
  strings.push $winners[i] + "\n"
end
file = File.new("Winners.txt", "w+")
for i in 0...strings.size
  file.write strings[i]
end
file.close

 

[verballydecapitating]

Mine didn't make a solid line of text.. I did test it
Make sure you use quotes not apostrophes, \n is used to indicate a new line. Did you use the exact code?

 

[linkz0r]

It did vd...

 

[Tdata]

Thank you Linkin_T And VD.

 

[verballydecapitating]

Did you even try it? Yes it does work. Try it. Put this in main, open Winners.txt

$winners = ['Fred', 'Johnson', 'Peter', 'Julie', 'Pat', 'Steve']
string = "First prize:\n#{$winners[0]}\nRunners up:"
for i in 1..5
  string += "\n" + $winners[i]
end
file = File.new('Winners.txt', 'wb')
file.write(string)
file.close

 

[Tdata]

VD: Here is what the txt contains with yours:

First prize:FredRunners up:JohnsonPeterJuliePatSteve

 

[verballydecapitating]

Well that's strange, for me it works perfect. Is it because I'm on Windows 2000 or something? Does it work with 'w+' instead of 'wb'?

EDIT:
file = File.new('Winners.txt', 'wb')
changes to
file = File.new('Winners.txt', 'w+')

 

[alexanderpas]

used the size function for the array

$winners = ['Fred', 'Johnson', 'Peter', 'Julie', 'Pat', 'Steve']
string = "First prize:\n" + $winners[0] + "\nRunners up:"
for i in 1...$winners.size
  string += "\n" + $winners[i]
end
file = File.new('Winners.txt', 'w+')
file.write(string)
file.close

 

[verballydecapitating]

It sounded like he only wanted to show the first 5 runners up.

 

[linkz0r]

Ow is it resolved or not?

 

[Trickster]

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Thank you!