Saving to a dynamic filename for steps such as save, dump, write, snap, table

[kensoh]

Raising this from an user email for sharing, as other users might benefit from this question.

---

Script in C:\test1
Need to write csv to another folder: F:\apps\test1

Tried the following on windows:

output_filename = "F:\apps\test1\test123.txt"
echo "output_filename = " + output_filename
dump "this is test123" to '+output_filename+'

Error message:
output_filename = F:\apps\test1\test123.txt
dump "this is test123" to '+output_filename+'
Unable to open file 'F:/apps/test1/F:\apps\test1\test123.txt'
F:/apps/tagui/src/phantomjs:/platform/fs.js:79 in open
F:/apps/tagui/src/phantomjs:/platform/fs.js:136 in write
F:/apps/tagui/src/phantomjs:/code/output1.js:81 in save_text
F:/apps/tagui/src/phantomjs:/code/output1.js:1208
F:/apps/tagui/src/phantomjs:/platform/casper.js:1637 in runStep
F:/apps/tagui/src/phantomjs:/platform/casper.js:414 in checkStep

For your advice, please.

[kensoh]

Having a dynamic filename wasn't planned as part of the use scenarios, but I can imagine that it is going to very useful. Thanks for raising this! I've made a commit to the cutting edge version which you can download and use right away for both macOS and Windows. Let me know if you run into issues :)

[kensoh]

Adding a note that this dynamic filename works also for load step to load from a filename that is dynamically formed during run-time and not pre-scripted during automation flow development.