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I am making an article builder for a website that constructs pages from pre-built chunks of html code with a user-entered text heading and text content slotted into it.

Opus reads a text file with the code eg <div class="contentItem"/>
and puts it in a variable, fine.

Displaying the contents of the variable shows everything is there- however as the some of the content is (naturally) wrapped in < > it does not get written out to disc by Opus as it thinks the <> refers to a variable within Opus.

Is there a way - maybe some escape character - to tell opus that the <> is to be not to be interpreted, but is just plain text?

I have tried putting the "<" in quotes etc.

les

Opus' escape character is backslash (\) but if you are saving the example string given using scripting as either a string in quotes or string in a variable then this problem shouldn't occur.

IE Either:

textObj = OpenFile("c:\\myText.txt")
textObj.WriteLine( '<div class="contentItem"/> ')

or

myFish = '<div class="contentItem"/> '
textObj = OpenFile("c:\\myText.txt")
textObj.WriteLine(myFish )

Mack

Thanks,
I had put the prototype together with "Actions" not script. I will switch to script as per your examples and that should do the trick then.

les