FileRead help!!

[hamad12]

I've a simple question regarding reading a txt file

I've a file which is basicly a "log file for 1 of the scripts" which is like:

2012-01-29 09:13:05 : start: hamad12 started the script

2012-01-29 09:19:08 : done

etc etc

what am trying to do is to read the first10 chars of the LAST LINE? is it possible and how?

am already able to read the first 10 chart of the FIRST LINE with something like

Local $chars = FileRead($file, 10)

    MsgBox(0, "Char read:", $chars)

can you please help me how to read the last line?

Edited January 29, 2012 by hamad12

[Beege]

Maybe try using function _FileCountLines() to get the total line count. Then use FileReadLine() read the last line. Then use stringleft() to get the first 10 left most characters of that line.

#include <file.au3>
$iTotal = _FileCountLines('log.txt')
$read = FileReadLine('log.txt', $iTotal)
$sFirst_ten = StringLeft($read, 10)

[Bowmore]

If the line number parameter in FileReadLine() is negative then the line count is taken from the end of the file. The example Beege gave can be simplified to:

#include <file.au3>
$sFirst_ten = StringLeft(FileReadLine('log.txt', -1), 10)

[Beege]

Good call.

[hamad12]

If the line number parameter in FileReadLine() is negative then the line count is taken from the end of the file. The example Beege gave can be simplified to:

#include <file.au3>
$sFirst_ten = StringLeft(FileReadLine('log.txt', -1), 10)

Good call.

thank you both very much!

it's working like a charm

silly thing! how to mark the post as solved??

Edited January 29, 2012 by hamad12

[Beege]

silly thing! how to mark the post as solved??

Just go to your first post and click edit, then click "use full editor". The title will be at the top. Just add "<SOLVED>" to the title. I love it when people do this

Edited January 29, 2012 by Beege