Hi everyone. I receive single words form a microphone input that I will like to save in a text file. I manage to save one word in the text file, but when i say a new word the old one get overwritten. How can I add the new word after the one(s) already been saved? thanks for help String wordFile…

Something like: Funny Blue Dance … and so on… what happen now with the code is that i save: “Funny” and then when I save “Blue” it overwrite the word funny instead of having something like: Funny Blue

OK in this case try this: https://processing.org/reference/createWriter_.html

sorry, i think that the point here might be -a- first need to read the already existing strings from the file -b- then need to extend that array -c- then need to add the new word from the new split array one by one -d- and write all to the same file again. ? is that the function what you need?

Hi kll, yes you get it right to the point. I’m not able to do it by my own as I’m a beginner. Could you please provide me some documentation or example on how i could build such a function? Thank you

like? String filename ="data/MyText.txt"; String[] lines; lines = loadStrings(filename); String[] newlines = split(answer, ' '); for ( String l : newlines ) { expand(lines); lines = append(lines, l); // add one line for each new word } saveStrings(filename, lines); sorr…

yes that definitely looks promising and more suitable for my needs. Thanks a lot. I will integrate it in my code and test it. I will let you know the result. Thanks again for the help!

sorry i not know that one, is that able to open existing file for write / append?

one more question where do I declare the variable “lines”? now I get the error " the variable lines does not exist"

but i just read what you actually try to do, the word-cloud thing? so you should first loop through the “existing” list and check if the word is there already? and only if NOT add it? https://processing.org/reference/String_equals_.html

SaveString() overwrite text in .txt file

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