There is more than one way of doing it. Decide if the actual number is important, or just needs to be different so that you have different files
Easiest method prefix the file name with the seconds, thus all files will be unique and sort in the order they were written put "/Users/hudson/Documents/MCA.SCORES/" into pathh if there is not a folder pathh then create folder pathh put the seconds & "testing1" into FN put pathh & FN into pathhFN put studentanswers into URL ("file:"&pathhFN) --------- Method 2 adding a suffix such as ".txt" and want to keep adding to the ending number until it won't overwrite an existing file put ("/Users/hudson/Documents/MCA.SCORES/") into pathh if there is not a folder pathh then create folder pathh put false into goodName put 1 into countrr repeat until goodName is true put ("testing" & countrr & ".txt") into FN put (pathh & FN) into pathhFN if there is not a file pathhFN then put studentanswers into URL ("file:"&pathhFN) exit repeat --don't need to bother with goodname --we are bailing out now end if --name was taken, so try again add 1 to countrr end repeat Method 3 and beyond could be that you add the short date to the filename, some data from the test, etc. adding the date could be done by get the short date set the itemdel to "/" put char -2 to - 1 of ("00" & item 3 of it) into yy put char -2 to - 1 of ("00" & item 2 of it) into dd put char -2 to - 1 of ("00" & item 1 of it) into mm put (yy & mm & dd) into dateStr put ("testing" & dateStr & ".txt") into FN put (pathh & FN) into pathhFN Hope this helps Jim Ault Las Vegas On 1/30/06 6:12 PM, "Jeff Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I change the name when I am saving an ascii text file. > > I want a separate text file saved as each student finishes their work. > > PUT studentanswers into URL "file:/Users/hudson/Documents/MCA.SCORES/testing1" > > This saves the file I want. I can't find a way to change testing1 to adjust > for the variable first & last > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution