{{selection|Short Circuit|Console Program Basics}} [[Category:Simple]]

;Task:
Create a file called   "output.txt",   and place in it the contents of the file   "input.txt",   ''via an intermediate variable''.

In other words, your program will demonstrate:
::#   how to read from a file into a variable
::#   how to write a variable's contents into a file

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Oneliners that skip the intermediate variable are of secondary interest — operating systems have copy commands for that.
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