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I have a text file with 800 lines. I need to search for a particular Heat Number [which in the array will be Column 18]. I can get somewhat of a 2d display of the array, but I can't figure out how to break up the text file first so that each field is in a column. Here is what I have so far:

this text file is called: Heatlist.txt

M;P;Eddie;Jones;;;34;F;A;Ann;Year;;;4294967295;Academy Ballroom;5;12/04/2010 23:38;Heat 306;Superstars;CC/R/SW/B/M;Open;C;1;

M;P;Phillip;Darley;;;42;F;A;Jane;Richards;;;4294967295;Darley's Ballroom;5;12/04/2010 23:38;Heat 306;Superstars;CC/R/SW/B/M;Open;C;4;

M;P;Phillip;Darley;;;42;F;P;Mary;Strayer;;;4294967295;Darley's Ballroom;5;12/05/2010 00:10;Pro heat 2;Professional Showdance;;;;1;

#include "array.au3"

#include "File.au3"

#include "Date.au3"

#include "String.au3"

_FileReadToArray("C:\cmp\heatlist.txt",$aResult)

_ArrayDisplay($aResult,"Test")

For $iIndex = 1 To $aResult[0]

If StringInStr($aResult[$iIndex], "Heat 306") Then

MsgBox(4096,"Yes!","r")

EndIf

Next

I can get all the records to display, but all the data is in Column 0. Where am I going wrong?

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The _FileReadToArray() reads each entire line into a single element of a 1D array. Look for the various examples posted to read CSV files into a 2D array, some have user-specified delimiter so you can set ";" vice ",".

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Might have something to do with how each line is broken in the original heatlist.txt file. I copied and pasted the text you provided into notepad then ran the script and it worked fine for me...

But...how can it put each piece of data for each record when we have not told it what the seperator [the ;] is?

I get an array of all the records, but each record of data is all in Column 0, not seperated into columns by the ; delimiter.

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The _FileReadToArray() reads each entire line into a single element of a 1D array. Look for the various examples posted to read CSV files into a 2D array, some have user-specified delimiter so you can set ";" vice ",".

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I agree...but I have not been able to find one yet via my search of this forum...

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You could use something like this:

$File = FileOpen("C:\cmp\heatlist.txt", 0)
While 1
     $ReadLine = FileReadLine($File) ; Reads in one line of the file at a time
     If @error then ExitLoop  ; if it got to the end of the file exit the while loop
     $Array = StringSplit($ReadLine, ";") ; splits the read line using the ";" as the place to split each element
     ;<do what you need to do with the array contents here>
Wend
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