[Tutor] clearing a text document

[Luke Paireepinart]

max baseman wrote:
> right it's for a quick math "game" the rules are simple you start  
> with any number to get the next number you, a. if it's odd multiply  
> by 3 than add 1 or b. if it's even divide by two,  the point of this  
> is to see how long it takes to get to one are it starts to repeat  
> 4,2,1,4,2,1...
> now im looking for a a number with  a very high amount of numbers  
> till you get to 1 so every time it's finds a new one i would like it  
> to write that to a file and clear the last entry,
Just open the file for writing and it will erase all previous contents 
and create the file if it doesn't already exist.
-Luke