Word groups

[Codemike]

Is it possible something programming way in AutoIt to know if is word group like: bread ($5)

limodade ($1)

cake ($10)

limonade ($2)

to take Clipget() to find out prices and give them symbols and notice that there is limonade word two times?

[kylomas]

CodeMike,

This is what I understand from your post. You have items:

bread, limodade, cake, limodade

And you want to associate prices with each item. Somehow clipget() is involved with the prices. You also want to detect duplicate items.

Questions:

- where do each of these data elements come from (gui, file, db, etc)?

- what do you want to do with them?

It is easy enough to detect duplicates.

What you should do:

Answer the two questions above, write some code, follow-up with questions resulting from code or design issues.

kylomas

[Codemike]

CodeMike,

This is what I understand from your post. You have items:

bread, limodade, cake, limodade

And you want to associate prices with each item. Somehow clipget() is involved with the prices. You also want to detect duplicate items.

Questions:

- where do each of these data elements come from (gui, file, db, etc)?

- what do you want to do with them?

It is easy enough to detect duplicates.

What you should do:

Answer the two questions above, write some code, follow-up with questions resulting from code or design issues.

kylomas

This is some vb.net example. Can AutoIt do something like?

Public Class Form1

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Dim prices = New Dictionary(Of String, Decimal)()

Dim rows = Clipboard.GetText().Split(ControlChars.NewLine)

For Each row In rows

If (Not String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(row)) Then

Dim information = row.Split(ControlChars.Tab)

Dim Sum As Decimal

If information.Length <> 3 OrElse information(2) <> "dollars" OrElse Decimal.TryParse(information(1), Sum) Then

MessageBox.Show("Row's information wrong form: " & row)

ElseIf prices.ContainsKey(information(0)) Then

MessageBox.Show("product " + information(0) + " is many times, only first notice")

Else

prices.Add(information(0), Sum)

End If

End If

Next

End Sub

End Class

[Codemike]

Please some help? Is it some way do in AutoIt that if I get ClipGet() which include example words "computer, house, apple, computer" that program knows that there is two times "computer" word?

[kylomas]

CodeMike,

I do NOT know vb.net but am able to glean the following:

- the code is splitting clip-board data on "tab" characters

- there is some kind of dictionary look-up ocurring (unclear where the dict data is comming from, possibly some DB as

do NOT understand the first line of the code)

- there is something called "TryParse"...don't know if it is vb.net or a function that is not shown

- after some editing results are either echoed to the user or a dict entry is added

Net out, yes this can be done in AutoIT, need more info (especially code) to arrive at a solution

kylomas

[kylomas]

CodeMike,

To answer your question specific to duplicates...

The following code will work on alphameric data. The routine could be turned into a function within other code.

;
;
;  clipboard contains "john sue mary    alex    john" as tab seperated values
;
;

#include<array.au3>

$str = stringsplit(clipget(),@tab)

_arraysort($str)

for $i = 0 to ubound($str)  - 1
    if $i = 0 then ContinueLoop
    if $str[$i] = $str[$i-1] then consolewrite('Dup found at elements ' & $i-1 & ' ' & $i & '  value = ' & $str[$i] & @lf)
Next

Good Luck,

kylomas

[Codemike]

Thanks very much.