You have several options to write to a text file one line at a time (or even less).

Option 1: Save everything to a variable first. Save the entire file to disk at once, with the FileToStr() command.

Option 2: Save to the file, one line at a time, with FileToStr(). This function has an option to add to the end of a file. (The first invocation of FileToStr() would not use this option - so that, if the file already exists, it is overwritten.)

Option 3: Use low-level file-functions. Create a file with fcreate(), write bytes with fwrite() or lines with fputs(), at the end, close the file with fclose().

For options 1 and 2, don't forget to add a chr(13) + chr(10) at the end of each line.

>I need to write to a .txt but I can not just use "copy to type", because I need more control over the txt file.
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>open my.txt file
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> use table 1
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> scan
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> write: field1 + "|" + field2 + "|" + field3
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> in the next line
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> write: field4 + "|" + field5 + "|" + field6
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>use item
> scan for condition
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>write: field1 + "|" + field2
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> in the next line
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> write: field3 + "|" + field4
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>endscan
> endscan
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