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I have a result I want to save in a .txt file. So I use this line to save a result k:

param OutputFile symbolic := "output.txt";
print k >> (OutputFile);

However, I may run the script several times which means I will open an existing file and add lines to it. What I want to do is overwrite on the file output.txt so I will not have the previous runs results.

How do I do this?

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This should overwrite :

 k > (OutputFile);

While this appends :

 k >> (OutputFile);
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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you, this helped $\endgroup$ – odd Oct 12 '20 at 14:16
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To overwrite a file that you have previously been writing in an AMPL session, first close the file:

close (OutputFile);

Then use > to overwrite the file:

print k > (OutputFile);

This deletes the file and then opens a new, empty file with the same name. Note that once the file is open, > and >> both append to it. A complete description of AMPL file redirection is given in section 12.7 General facilities for manipulating output of the AMPL book.

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