For questions about writing to a file. It could be referencing appending data, rewriting all existing content, or other related uses of functions that programmatically edit files. It is not limited to a certain language.
This tag is most often used when someone wants to add/insert content to a file programmatically. One example is in the Node JS function fs.writeFile
, which is used to create files and write to them.
This is an example script which shows the usage of fs.writeFile
to write a string to message.txt
.
// Node JS
const fs = require('fs');
const data = new Uint8Array(Buffer.from('Hello Node.js'));
fs.writeFile('message.txt', data, (err) => {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('The file has been saved!');
});
Make sure to pair this tag with a language tag as writefile is generally not specific enough to describe a complete question.