saving data from multiple text boxes to the same place

Nathaniel Mackie

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Jul 27, 2015, 11:15:31 PM7/27/15

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Hello,

I am trying to make multiple text boxes save the data within them all into one file, how would i go about structuring the blocks in order to make all the information go into one specific file together? or into an page that could be shared. Attached is a picture of my interface and all the text boxes i would like to store information into to save

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Taifun

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Jul 28, 2015, 10:43:40 AM7/28/15

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use the join block to join the text of all textboxes, then use the File.SaveFile block to save everything into a file, see also the documentation

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Nathaniel Mackie

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Jul 28, 2015, 1:49:11 PM7/28/15

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Could you provide a screenshot of the join block? I cannot find it. or just describe to me which one it is,

Thank you!!

Nathaniel Mackie

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Jul 28, 2015, 1:50:12 PM7/28/15

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never mind i found it. thank you for the assistance

Abraham Getzler

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Jul 28, 2015, 3:08:39 PM7/28/15

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You will probably want to recover your data from that file later,

and will find it all mushed together, unless you intersperse commas between columns.

Read up on csv formatted data.

JSON is also a good topic to explore.

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