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Anyone of you can help me with my terrible problem?

I want to read a date from a line in a .txt file. I've tried a lot but i didn't manage it!

In that line there is only the date, for example 25/10/2011. I made this but it doesn't work!

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#include <Date.au3>

#include <File.au3>

#region ### START Variable Declaration ### Variables=

$file=FileOpen("C:Users\Utente\Documents\Date.txt")

$TodayDate=_Date_Time_GetLocalTime()

#EndRegion ### END Variable Declaration section ###

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=

$Form1 = GUICreate("Territories", 477, 237, 192, 124)

$File = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&File")

$Exit = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("E&xit", $File)

$Tools = GUICtrlCreateMenu("T&ools")

$OverTime = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Ch&eck expiration", $Tools)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

Dim $Form1_AccelTable[2][2] = [["!x", $Exit],["^h", $OverTime]]

GUISetAccelerators($Form1_AccelTable)

#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1

$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()

Switch $nMsg

Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

Exit

Case $Exit

Exit

Case $OverTime

$AnyDate=_DateTimeFormat(Stringformat(FileReadLine($file,8)),1)

MsgBox(4096,"Today is",_Date_Time_SystemTimeToDateStr($AnyDate))

EndSwitch

WEnd

Could someone help me? Please..

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Your FileOpen statement is wrong. Insert a backslash after the drive.

$file=FileOpen("C:\Users\Utente\Documents\Date.txt")

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Please insert this line at the top of your script:

MsgBox(0,"", "File exists: " & FileExists("C:\Users\Utente\Documents\Date.txt"))
If you don't get 1 as a result then the input file does not exist.

And you should change

FileReadLine($file,8)
to
FileReadLine($file, 1)
because now you try to read line 8.

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The message box shows as title: "Today is" and the text in it is:"00/00/0000"

Is the problem about the date caused by a mistake in the input? In the .txt file the date is 28/10/2011 without the time, can you tell me if i have to write it too? Or the order is wrong? I mean, i wrote the date following DD/MM/YYYY form, did I write right? Or the date must be MM/DD/YYYY?

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Okay this boils down to too many possible causes for error. Deal with one problem at a time. Firstly can you read the line? Straight from the help file (more or less).

$file = FileOpen("test.txt", 0)
; Check if file opened for reading OK
 
If $file = -1 Then
    MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")
    Exit
EndIf
 
; Read last line of text
$line = FileReadLine($file, -1)
If @error Then $line = "Error reading line"
FileClose($file)
 
MsgBox(0, "Line read:", $line)

Yes I can read the line, now what?

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These 2 lines

$AnyDate=_DateTimeFormat(Stringformat(FileReadLine($file,8)),1)
MsgBox(4096,"Today is",_Date_Time_SystemTimeToDateStr($AnyDate))
are wrong as can be.

You use Stringformat wrong because you don't specify a format control.

You use _Date_Time_SystemTimeToDateStr wrong because $AnyDate isn't in the right format. It has to be a $tagSYSTEMTIME structure.

Please tell us what you try to achieve and we might help you with your script.

Edited by water

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I'm sure there are many ways to do something like this. I think you should use _DateDiff => look in the help file. I don't know how all the date functions work but this may be a possible solution.

#include <Date.au3>
 
Dim $line = "28/7/2011"
 
Dim $aDate = StringSplit($line, "/", 2) ; Splits the date
Dim $sStartDate = $aDate[2] &"/"& $aDate[1] &"/"& $aDate[0] ; Reverse to get Year Month Day format
Dim $sEndDate = @YEAR &"/"& @MON &"/"& @MDAY ; Current date
 
Dim $iMonthDiff = _DateDiff("M", $sStartDate, $sEndDate) ; Get the difference
MsgBox(0, "Difference in Months:", $iMonthDiff)

You might want to get the difference in days instead of months, and set 60 days as the limit.

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To display the number of months between the date in the file and today I would use:

$AnyDate = StringMid($AnyDate, 7, 4) & "/" & StringMid($AnyDate, 4, 2) & "/" & StringMid($AnyDate, 4, 2)
MsgBox(4096, "",  "Date read: " & $AnyDate & @CRLF & _
    "Today: " & _NowCalcDate() & @CRLF & _
    "Difference in days: " & _DateDiff("d", $AnyDate, _NowCalcDate()) & @CRLF _
    "Difference in months: " & _DateDiff("m", $AnyDate, _NowCalcDate()))

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Replace

Case $OverTime
  $AnyDate=_DateTimeFormat(Stringformat(FileReadLine($file,8)),1)
  MsgBox(4096,"Today is",_Date_Time_SystemTimeToDateStr($AnyDate))
in your script with
Case $OverTime
  $AnyDate = FileReadLine($file,-1) ; reads the last line of the file
  $AnyDate = StringMid($AnyDate, 7, 4) & "/" & StringMid($AnyDate, 4, 2) & "/" & StringMid($AnyDate, 4, 2)
  MsgBox(4096, "",  "Date read: " & $AnyDate & @CRLF & _
     "Today: " & _NowCalcDate() & @CRLF & _
     "Difference in days: " & _DateDiff("D", $AnyDate, _NowCalcDate()) & @CRLF _
     "Difference in months: " & _DateDiff("M", $AnyDate, _NowCalcDate()))

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What's the value of "Date read:"?

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I spotted one or tow errors in Water's code, which I have fixed. Also if you use StringMid, instead of StringSplit, make sure the date always contains leading zeros => 01/01/2011.

$AnyDate = "28/07/2011"
 
$AnyDate = StringMid($AnyDate, 7, 4) & "/" & StringMid($AnyDate, 4, 2) & "/" & StringMid($AnyDate, 1, 2)
 
MsgBox(4096, "",  "Date read: " & $AnyDate & @CRLF & _
    "Today: " & _NowCalcDate() & @CRLF & _
    "Difference in days: " & _DateDiff("d", $AnyDate, _NowCalcDate()) & @CRLF & _
    "Difference in months: " & _DateDiff("m", $AnyDate, _NowCalcDate()))
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Then the last line of your file is empty.

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