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Users may open a text file using the #fopen directive. The syntax is as follows:
- #fopen
- read
write | append
Where IDENTIFIER is an undefined identifier used to reference this file as a file handle, "filename" is any string literal or string expression which specifies the file name. Files opened with the read are open for read only. Those opened with write create a new file with the specified name and it overwrites any existing file with that name. Those opened with append opens a file for writing but appends the text to the end of any existing file.
The file handle identifier created by #fopen is always global and remains in effect (and the file remains open) until the scene parsing is complete or until you #fclose the file. You may use #ifdef FILE_HANDLE_IDENTIFIER to see if a file is open.
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