HyperCard: Exporting Text with Page Breaks to MacWrite II

Here's how to export a field from HyperCard to a text file that will be read into MacWrite II with page breaks between lines.

on mouseUp
 ask "export data to what file"
 if it is not empty then
   put it into filename
   open file fileName
   repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of field 1
     write line i of field 1 & numtochar(12) to file filename
   end repeat
   close file fileName
 end if
end mouseUp

The key line is "write .... numToChar(12)...", because that's what does the
page break.  Ascii╩12 is a page break.


This article is adapted from the Claris Tech Info database.
Published Date: Feb 19, 2012