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i'm trying to save text from a editbox i got it to save ok but it looks like this :
would there be a way to save without the boxes i'm useing a FileSelectFile
to save s8 so it creates a new file it don't seem to want to save without them litle boxes





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FileSelectFile, SelectedFile, 2, ,Open a file, Text Documents (*.txt)
if SelectedFile =
{
MsgBox, The user didn't select anything.
Return
}
else
ControlGetText, OutputVar1,Edit1
FileAppend, %OutputVar1%, %SelectedFile%.ahk
Return

gmmm....My Error: "SelectedFile, 2"

Nice example. I made the change you indicated to your original post. In case you didn't know, you can edit your own posts with the Edit button.

Yes thats like what i have in that that example but when i save the text in the editbox it saves ok but it saves it with litle boxes evrywhere
i know that the same thing was happing a while ago when i was doing the file open but the problom was fix'd when i use'd the `r`n


Contents = %Contents%%A_LoopReadLine%`r`n

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The is probably caused by the following statement recently added to ControlGetText: "Text retrieved from most control types uses carriage return and linefeed (`r`n) rather than a solitary linefeed (`n) to mark the end of each line."

If you download the latest version (released yesterday), I think it will fix this issue because FileAppend auto-detects `r`n (CRLF), and writes the file correctly.

To make it work on older versions, you could use StringReplace:
StringReplace, OutputVar1, OutputVar1, `r`n, `n, All