This method opens the file that is encapsulated by the File object.

C language programmers will be immediately familiar with this method. It behaves very similarly to the fopen() call in the ANSI C language libraries. The difference is that this method lacks a filename argument which is moved to the constructor function which is called separately.

The following flag values can be used with this method:

If you are using this in a server-side application (within NES), you should make sure the project locking is activated to avoid file corruption happening if there are multiple simultaneous accesses to the file.

Example code:

   <SERVER>

   // Example file create, open and write taken from

   // Wrox Professional JavaScript

   myFile = new File("file.txt");

   myFile.open("a");

   myFile.writeln("Append this line to the file.");

   myFile.close();

   </SERVER>