Editing maya Ascii

[christianmassyn]

Hi, I new how to do this but now I can remember I know it is only a few lines of code. I want to be able to fopen a maya asci file and read lines one by one ( this I can do ) then I want to create a new .ma file and write the lines to it one by one. I am gona edit a few lines in there but that is already working I just need to know how to make an empty ascii file and then write lines(strings) into it. And then save. All this must be mel. Dont want to open the actaul file with maya cause the files need some editing first before I can just open it in maya normaly.
Thanks

[christianmassyn]

O yes, tried to use fopen to create but it does not save it .ma format( looks like a text file in my file browser).

[christianmassyn]

Ok my bad, took me whole morning but I suppose I will not forget this again. The reason I did not get the file looking like a .ma file is cause I did not create the whole file. Just did a part of it as a test so although I saved as .ma it was not reconized