PCM export

[[Cl...]]

This for Roberto Flores, unless someone else with specific
PCM knowledge can jump in and answer this.

Roberto, you assisted me with some PCM code a while
back that would capture only specific characteristic's to
output to a .txt file.

That works great, one problem though. If a part fails the
operators re-run it. Usually the second run it's good, and
the generated report does not overwrite the first one that failed.

I want the report to overwrite the first one. How do I do that?
Here's the code I'm using:
PCM.txt

[[Er...]]

Place this after you have defined the variable "dirPath", but before you write to the file.

if fileExists(dirPath) == true
      deleteFile(dirPath)
endif

[[Cl...]]

Thank you Eric.

[[Cl...]]

Is this correct Eric?

[[Er...]]

Yepp

[[Cl...]]

Thanks again Eric. This worked well, and really helped us out 🙂

[[Er...]]

It's amazing what you can achive now days, with a smart phone in a restroom you can solve issues on the other side of the globe. 🤠

[[Ro...]]

The best problems are the ones that fix themselves 🙂

Thanks eric, as usual your fix was easier than mine

I put a "deleteFile" in front of my directory path, but it does the same thing as your If statement.

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[[Er...]]

Not sure I understand why mine is easier than yours.
In my eyes yours is easier, since it's only one line. Only difference is that I use the variable of the full path and file. You build the string again.

How ever, yours will raise an exception and send to transcript if the file doesn't exist. Doesn't effect anything and work as a charm here. But in many other languages it will fail, or make weird thing. Kind of like this joke:

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Guess I'm damaged after all programming I've done.. 🙂

[[Ro...]]

It seems like it would raise an exception, but it never has.
Ive had programs err out over much less

[[Er...]]

Fu#k me side ways, it doesnt raise an exception. There's an internal check within the syntax if the file exists or not. It's like some one actually put some tought in to that one 🙂

(Usually you dont see the transicript window unless you run calypso in development mode, or turn it on by force.)

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There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary. Ones that do and others that don't.

[[Er...]]

The corniest of them all, head it from a it-guy at work the other day whole a bullied jim whole he set up a network with the new dura max. (Actually took me a whole to figure it out)

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