# Adding on text to an existing file

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-on-text-to-an-existing-file/287441>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 1, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-on-text-to-an-existing-file/287441 "2009-05-01T02:41:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![almondo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@almondo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/almondo)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-on-text-to-an-existing-file/287441/1 "2009-05-01T02:41:11Z")

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hey,  
I’m trying to work out how I can save text to a .txt file that already exists… I can’t work out how to find the end of that file and save the new data there…  
any help would be fantastic… cheers