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Ethan Schoonbee
Ethan Schoonbee

Reputation: 33

Error 105 when creating and writing to text file

I am testing a login and account creation program. When the user presses the Create New Account button it prompts them to enter a Username (which saves to a variable-sNewUsername) and a Password (which saves to a variable-sNewPassword). The password is saved to a text file. For some reason, it gives me the 'I/O Error 105' when trying to save the password to the text file.

I have run the debug tool and it saves to the variable fine but does not Write to the text file. I have double checked if I have used Rewrite instead of Reset and all looks fine.

AssignFile(tf,sNewUsername + '.txt');
Rewrite(tf);

  writeln(sNewPassword);

closefile(tf);

I expected the file to save the Password from the variable to the text file but it does not write the password to the text file and give an error i do not understand ('I/O error 105').

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10086

Answers (1)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 612954

Your call to writeln is not providing a file object, and so attempts to write to the standard output, which presumably does not exist in your process.

Change it to

writeln(tf, sNewPassword);

However, you should probably use a more modern mechanism to write a file. Further, you are running a serious risk that you won't write the file to the desired directory because you only specify a relative path.

Upvotes: 5

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