Not quite clear what <quotename> is in your application, but try something along the lines of: write to-file join <quotename> ".data" stuff-to-write where <quotename> is a string, and stuff-to-write is your data. Russ PS: broken out perhaps more clearly, this example: var: "test" filename: to-file join var ".data" write filename stuff-to-write ============ At 03:16 PM 12/9/1999 +0100, you wrote: > >Hello, > >I'm writing a script to automaticaly get historical quote from Yahoo Finance, and >I would like to save the quote in a file with name: <quotename>.data. > >How can I use the "write" command to give a variable as a filename ? > >In shell script, I would have written : >for i in SGI MSFT AAPL >do > get $i > $i.data >done > > >thanks > >laurent > > > > >
