bmech211 0 Posted July 27, 2011 Greetings all, I am a technical analyst tasked with creating and maintaining commercial aircraft maintenance manuals. I rely heavily on using the manufacturers manual to extract, revise and/or create new document sets. Currently, I am extracting this data manually by: >Opening the complete sgml manual in Textpad >Searching for the applicable section >Copy/paste the section into a new Textpad document >Copy/paste the Doctype call-out so I can author/edit, parse and validate in Arbortext >Save file to applicable folder I would like create a script in AutoIt to automate this process by extracting all the sections (roughly 3800 per aircraft manual), inputting the Doctype call-out and individually saving each document to an output folder. I have read through some of the help topics and FAQ's but I don't know what functions in AutoIt apply to what I'm trying to do. I'm asking for a little guidance in determining what I should be reviewing to help me in developing this script. Any and all suggestions are welcome. I appreciate your time, BH Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nitekram 68 Posted July 27, 2011 Welcome to the forum... Look in the help file under FileOpen, FileClose, FileRead, FileReadLine, FileWrite, FileWriteLine - that should get you started. 2¢All by me:"Sometimes you have to go back to where you started, to get to where you want to go." "Everybody catches up with everyone, eventually" "As you teach others, you are really teaching yourself." From my dad "Do not worry about yesterday, as the only thing that you can control is tomorrow." WIKI | Tabs; | Arrays; | Strings | Wiki Arrays | How to ask a Question | Forum Search | FAQ | Tutorials | Original FAQ | ONLINE HELP | UDF's Wiki | AutoIt PDF AutoIt Snippets | Multple Guis | Interrupting a running function | Another Send StringRegExp | StringRegExp Help | RegEXTester | REG TUTOR | Reg TUTOT 2AutoItSetOption | Macros | AutoIt Snippets | Wrapper | Autoit Docs SCITE | SciteJump | BB | MyTopics | Programming | UDFs | AutoIt 123 | UDFs Form | UDFLearning to script | Tutorials | Documentation | IE.AU3 | Games? | FreeSoftware | Path_Online | Core Language Programming TipsExcel ChangesControlHover.UDFGDI_PlusDraw_On_ScreenGDI BasicsGDI_More_BasicsGDI RotateGDI GraphGDI CheckExistingItemsGDI TrajectoryReplace $ghGDIPDll with $__g_hGDIPDllDLL 101?Array via ObjectGDI SwimlaneGDI Plus French 101 SiteGDI Examples UEZGDI Basic ClockGDI DetectionTernary operator Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bmech211 0 Posted July 27, 2011 Welcome to the forum...Look in the help file under FileOpen, FileClose, FileRead, FileReadLine, FileWrite, FileWriteLine - that should get you started.nitekram,Thank you for the welcome and also for your suggestions. I will get started on these. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites