Printing to a text file, enclosing quotes?

[Anonymous]

Ok, again, the small is stumping me and i know its most likely something simple. In the 3 days developing a complicated exporter/converter for some of our level files its the smallest thing,

f = openFile exportFilePath_ mode:"wt"
        x = "information {\n"
        x += "key = \"value\";\n"
        x += "};\n"
print x to:f

All variables work and are declared , just what i get is output is

"information {
key = "value"
};"

This, as you imagine is not desirable. How do i get rid of the quotes that it adds when writing a string to a file.

print "hello" to:filestream makes the file contain "hello".
i need it to write hello.

[Anonymous]

use format instead...

format "%" x to:f

[Anonymous]

Aha, i thought format was to help print if needed, the docs were a little unclear on the difference (or maybe im just spacing out).

Thanks a lot, ScriptChimp

[Anonymous]

no problem....

Format is useful for rearranging text, it's also more robust than print when it comes to casting data
as a string.

I gave you a simple one line fix, but you could have done the whole thing in one line...

format "information {\nkey= \"%\"\n}\n" value to:f

[Anonymous]

Yea, i was using it elsewhere to format strings, i just didnt realise it "prints" them to the stream. It works great now though,

And the above, i only posted a few line example. My string is actually built over hundreds of lines using UserProperties etc 🙂
Thanks again