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[pokwuk]

Hi folks ,

Im pretty new to autoit , i had a read through the forum , and searched on google but couldnt find anything .

Also couldnt find anything on helpfile.

What i wanted to do is replace some text on a particular part of a line(only 1 long line).

this is what i was trying , which obviously didn't work

$text = WinGetText("[CLASS:Notepad]", "")
$textFile = _StringBetween($text , "my name is >", "and i have a hat")
_FileWriteToLine( $textFile, 1, send("^v"), 1)

so i wanted to replace the text between those , like "my name is "jon" and i have a hat" , i wanted to replace the "jon" for something else that was copied from another .txt

Thanks

[SmOke_N]

There you go again not reading the help file and seeing how to use functions ( again, _StringBetween() returns an array ).

If I'm not mistaken, I gave you a wiki page where to learn as well....

[enaiman]

You might want to have a look at ClipGet

Also, you are using badly the filename ...

$textFile needs to be an actual file location and that file must exist - your script is returning a string (probably "Jon") and of course that is not a valid file name.

It would have been an useful exercise for you to get this working on your own but, here is the script - try to understand what I did

#Include <File.au3>
#Include <String.au3>

$text = WinGetText("[CLASS:Notepad]", "")
$textFile = "C:\result.txt"
If Not FileExists($textFile) Then
    FileClose(FileOpen($textFile, 2))
EndIf
$nameToReplace = _StringBetween($text , "my name is >", "and i have a hat")
_FileWriteToLine( $textFile, 1, StringReplace($text, $nameToReplace[0], ClipGet()), 1)

Well ... I shouldn't have offered the code since the OP was already sent to a helpful Wiki page ... now I did it - sorry SmOke_N

Edited May 1, 2011 by enaiman

[SmOke_N]

Well ... I shouldn't have offered the code since the OP was already sent to a helpful Wiki page ... now I did it - sorry SmOke_N

No problem, most of us like to flex our knowledge base by providing solutions.

However, I think sometimes we forget, as helpful as the forum is, we really didn't get that knowledge by hoping someone would just fix our code.

More than likely, we got it from reading and learning how things work before/during/after we used them.