help to search file for text

[gav46]

does AutoIT have a simple function to search a file for specific text (and return msg with result)?

Something like the dos findstr command.....

I have a log file (c:\Applog.txt) which appends with each successful application install. I want to check this file before running an app to see whether the user has already run this app in the past....

thanks

[FuryCell]

  gav46 said:

does AutoIT have a simple function to search a file for specific text (and return msg with result)?

Something like the dos findstr command.....

I have a log file (c:\Applog.txt) which appends with each successful application install. I want to check this file before running an app to see whether the user has already run this app in the past....

thanks

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Something Like:

$TextFile="TextFile.txt"
$What2Find="One"
$Text=FileRead($TextFile,FileGetSize($TextFile))
$Pos=StringInStr($Text,$What2Find,1)
Select
Case $Pos=0
    MsgBox(0,"Not Found",$What2Find & " was not found in " & $TextFile)
Case Else
    MsgBox(0,"Not Found",$What2Find & " found in " & $TextFile & " at offset " & $Pos)
EndSelect

Just change "Textfile.txt" to the path of the textfile you want to search and "One" to what you want to find in the textfile.

Edited July 31, 2005 by SolidSnake

[gav46]

Thanks for that..... I changed the line

$Pos=StringInStr($Text,$What2Find,1)

to

$Pos=StringInStr($Text,$What2Find)

otherwise it only searched the first line in the file and not the whole document..

Great

Thanks again

[FuryCell]

  gav46 said:

Thanks for that..... I changed the line

$Pos=StringInStr($Text,$What2Find,1)

to

$Pos=StringInStr($Text,$What2Find)

otherwise it only searched the first line in the file and not the whole document..

Great

Thanks again

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

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