many lines and no idea!

[bafh]

Hi folks,

well I got this problem:

I got a file (html but i could convert it into usual text or what ever, it doesnt really matter) and there are many lines with information. Now, what I want to do, is that the script reads the first line, deletes part of the info (which is like the first 10 letters) and writes the rest into a new text file. Then it does the same with line two. In line three it checks if the stuff it wants to write into the textfile is already there and if not it writes it down AND SO ON until the file ends.

Well, the file is that big that I really really really dont want to do that manually.

How would I do that with autoit? Thanks alot.

[w0uter]

id say StringRegExp. (from the beta)

but StringInStr + StringTrim should also work.

[bafh]

Okay,

and how would i do the read line and read next line and so on? as a script?

[w0uter]

read the helpfile

[bafh]

Yes and how would I write a function that checks the whole written file if the line already exists?

[w0uter]

there a few udf's that do that.