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in thread file basics

The problem you probably ran into was that you used double quotes for your file name. (File extensions probably had nothing to do with it.) Since Windows's path separators are backslashes, and backslashes are a special character inside double quotes, this is many a beginner's stumbling-block. There are two easy fixes: use forward slashes (they work even on Windows), or use single quotes.

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Re^4: file basics
by harry1705 (Initiate) on Mar 13, 2012 at 04:02 UTC

    Thanks Monk, Both these ways helped me solve the problem, but when i tried without file extensions i got the error "Error in open:no such file or directory" by using either forward slashes or single quotes in the windows path

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