Appending to a file instead of overwriting it

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I'm making a logger script for my game, with a function that when is called, opens the log file, inserts the log text, and then closes it.

But I have run into a problem. Each time the new text overwrites the old one, so I would like to know how to append to the file instead.

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Open the file with mode READ_WRITE, seek to the end with seek_end(), optionally insert a newline with store_string("\n") and write your log text.

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I was so close then! I did exactly that but just in WRITE mode.

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if your using windows and your file is read in notepad like me, ("\n") will not work, so you should use ("\r"). That much is what I know, regarding seek_end(), it doesn't seem to go to the end of my file. It just stays in the beginning. I'll update this when I got the chance to understand why.

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