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Append to file

Ivan Kuznetsov
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Description

Appends text to a specified file.

 

Parameters

Path

  1. Set a value: enables you to directly write the desired path.

  2. Save the previous step result: chooses the previous activity result as a path.

  3. Calculate a value: enables you to use available properties and methods to form a path.

     

Text

  1. Set a value: enables you to directly provide a text to be written to a file.

  2. Save the previous step result: chooses the previous activity result as a text to write.

  3. Calculate a value: enables you to use available properties and methods to form an output string.

Quite often, when working with text in a written document, you need to do a line break or other operations with strings. In these cases, you can use the following characters in the "Calculate a value" field when working with text:

  1. \n — line feed. You can also use the\x0D\x0A value for line breaks in text.
  2. \t — horizontal tab.
  3. \' — single quote.
  4. \" — double quote.

and so on.

 

Encoding

This parameter allows you to specify the encoding, here is a full list of the supported ones:
437, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 856, 857, 858, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865, 866, 869, 874, 922, 1046, 1124, 1125, 1129, 1133, 1161, 1162, 1163, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258, 28591, 28592, 28593, 28594, 28595, 28596, 28597, 28598, 28599, 28600, 28601, 28603, 28604, 28605, 28606, maccroatian, maccyrillic, macgreek, maciceland, macroman, macromania, macthai, macturkish, macukraine, koi8r, koi8u, koi8t, armscii8, rk1048, tcvn, georgianacademy, georgianps, pt154, viscii, iso646cn, iso646jp, hproman8, macintosh, ascii, tis620, utf7, utf8, cesu8, ucs2, utf16, utf16le, utf16be, binary, base64, hex, 932, shiftjis, csshiftjis, mskanji, sjis, windows31j, ms31j, xsjis, windows932, ms932, cp932, 936, cp936, gb2312, gb231280, gb23121980, csgb2312, csiso58gb231280, euccn, windows936, ms936, 949, cseuckr, csksc56011987, euckr, isoir149, korean, ksc56011987, 950, eucjp, gbk, gb18030, big5.

 

Comment

Contains an annotation to the activity. The input text will be displayed above the activity name.

 

Usage Examples

This activity may be useful in creating different reports. For example, a robot is processing documents in a loop and the task is to write the corresponding processing status for each document. In this case you may use the activity where you need to set a pattern for writing the status once and then it will be writing the text to the end of the file in a loop.

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