open file & read from file vs get URL

[Björnke von Gierke]

URL is simpler to use, as you don't need to care about mode or closing 
the file again. This it is far simpler and more comfortable to use.
Examples:
put "another line" & return before URL "file:file/path/here/file.txt"
put empty into URL "file:textfile.txt"
get word 1 of line 2 of URL "file:source.txt"

The read-, open- and write-file commands don't put the whole file into 
memory, so if your file's are huge, then that is an advantage (In so 
far as I reckon that is the only advantage of these over URL)

On Montag, Feb 16, 2004, at 10:18 Europe/Zurich, Doug Lerner wrote:

> I have been using open file and read from file. The docs, however, 
> note:
>
> "As an alternative to the open file, read from file, and write to file
> commands, you can also use the URL keyword with get, put, and other 
> commands
> to access the contents of a file."
>
> Is there an advantage to one method over the other?
>
> doug
>
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