Description

Use to write one or more floating point values to a file. This command will accept any number of floating point arguments, including arrays.

The following list shows the different cast types. Note that data can be lost when casting. 'Signed' means the value can be negative. 'Unsigned' means value will always be positive.

Cast	Description
`"c"`	Writes float as a signed character, or a signed 8 bit (1 byte) value
`"uc"`	Writes float as an unsigned character, or an unsigned 8 bit (1 byte) value
`"s"`	Writes float as a signed short integer, or a signed 16 bit (2 bytes) value
`"us"`	Writes float as an unsigned short integer, or an unsigned 16 bit (2 bytes) value
`"i"`	Writes float as a signed integer, or a signed 32 bit (4 bytes) value
`"ui"`	Writes float as an unsigned integer, or an unsigned 32 bit (4 bytes) value
`"f"`	Writes float as a floating point value, a 32 bit (4 byte) value

Functional area

Disk I/O

Command syntax

Syntax

writeFloat fileID floatVal1 [floatVal2...] [-cast string]

Arguments

Name	Type	Comments
`float2`	optional float or float array	Command can accept any number of floats/arrays to write to the file
`float1`	float or float array	One or more values to be written to the file
`fileID`	int	ID of file previously opened with fileOpen

Flags

Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`cast`	1	string	—	Data type to cast to. Possible types are listed above. Note that data can be lost when casting.

Return value

void

Examples

//Write example
float $val = 5.75;
int $fileID; 
int $fileID = `fileOpen "C:/FileTesting.txt" "w"`;

// Write the float value
writeFloat $fileID $val;
fileClose $fileID;