Beginner Output To Question

[crjunk]

I'm not having much luck on finding out how to do this. I'm new to Progress and I'm still not very familiar with the syntax.

I'm writing data out to a text file. I want to give the text file a 4 digit random number, but I can't figure out how to pass this to the OUTPUT TO statement. This is what I've come up with so far:

ASSIGN tmpFileName = "C:\Temp\" + STRING(RANDOM(1000,9999)) + ".txt".

OUTPUT TO tmpFileName.

Thanks,
CR Junk

 

[tekstylez]

Try using..

OUTPUT TO VALUE(tmpFileName).
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.
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OUTPUT CLOSE.

 

[crjunk]

Thanks tekstylez! That did it. I had tried using the VALUE statement earlier, but it didn't seem to work. Maybe I had something wrong in my code. Oh well, it work now.

Thanks again!
CR Junk

 

[John Nebi]

I would also look for a file named "tmpFileName" in your working directory