Use saveStrings to add timestamp INTO the text File

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Hi guys!
I’m trying to create a certain code generator and it works quite well.
Cliffs:
It generates a number of codes and saves them into a .txt file. Now I also want to add a specific string to the end of that file (amount of time it took to create them)

So far I only have this:

saveStrings( sample size + "_output.txt", arrayName);

This generates e.g a 25000_output.txt file I wanted, but how can I archive to put my time variable onto the first/last line of that file?

Thanks in advance,
Eric

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So in order to add a line at the end of your file, you could simply add a \n to the end of the last element in your array.

arrayName[arrayName.length - 1] += "\n" + my_value;

Note: Windows uses these \r “carriage return” things for a new line, so you probably should use \r\n on Windows.

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Thank you DongKingKong0 - works like a charm.
Even though I don’t really understand why there is the need for the -1.
To me, it would be logical if I’ll address the last position on the array and not the one before.

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The array index of the first element is 0, the length property returns the total amount of Strings in the array. The address of the last element is length - 1, since the index of the first element is 0.