How does one go about editing ALL the text of a fi...
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jen
11/17/2020, 10:30 PMHow does one go about editing ALL the text of a file? I have an XML file that needs to have the text completely replaced via SuiteScript.
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battk
11/17/2020, 10:31 PMcreate a new file
battk
11/17/2020, 10:31 PMoverwrite the old file
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jen
11/17/2020, 10:32 PMno…that won’t work. The ID is stored on another record.
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battk
11/17/2020, 10:32 PMtry it anyways
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jen
11/17/2020, 10:32 PM? I don’t get how that would work. Then the ID would be wrong, no?
jen
11/17/2020, 10:33 PMI need to have it be the same file ID.
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battk
11/17/2020, 10:33 PMthe experiment does not take long
battk
11/17/2020, 10:34 PMdo it on a file you dont like if you like your test file
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jen
11/17/2020, 10:34 PMI don’t even know how to “overwrite”, what do you mean by that.
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battk
11/17/2020, 10:34 PMcreate a new file
battk
11/17/2020, 10:34 PMuse the same path as the old one
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jen
11/17/2020, 10:34 PMJust make two files with teh same name?
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battk
11/17/2020, 10:38 PMsame name, same path
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jeffmillies
11/17/2020, 10:39 PMThis does work, It will overwrite the file and retain the ID. But it needs to be the same path and filename
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battk
11/17/2020, 10:40 PMyou have ruined the minor surprise
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jen
11/17/2020, 10:41 PMwell that’s…..fucky.
jen
11/17/2020, 10:41 PMyou could have just said “if you create a file with the same name and the same path, it will retain the same ID”
jen
11/17/2020, 10:41 PMI feel it really should NOT be that way - it should throw an error
jen
11/17/2020, 10:41 PMthis seems like an extremely dangerous thing
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jeffmillies
11/17/2020, 10:42 PMyes heh
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battk
11/17/2020, 10:44 PMits strange enough that you would want to try it yourself before trusting someone else
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