How to include a complex text file as a string inside the script?

[kadanefewi]

Hey people!

Been using Autoit for some time and now I'm facing an issue.

First of all, I do not want to use fileinstall.

I'd like to know how could I format text in order to have it included as is as a string.

For example, adding a text similar to the one below poses the challenge for me of formating the strings in such a way to respect the EOL and TAB characters, to name a few:

Example list

- Line 1
- Line 2, this might have more text

***********************************

Another sections... hope you catch my drift!

Anyway, I could manually do this (I'm including part of the text only):

$String = 'Example list below:' & @CRLF & @CRLF & '- Line 1'

How could I automate this conversion process to a format that could be decoded as the original by Autoit? Base 64? Binary?
 I'm a bit lost!

Thanks guys, hope you get what I meant!

[kadanefewi]

OK, I'm one of those annoying guys that replies to his own question five minutes later, hahaha!

Maybe useful for someone googling for that in the future!

Anyway, pretty easy. Just make an array of all the files to convert using _filelisttoarrayrec.

Then, use _StringToHex on each, output to a file. All I need to do is paste the hex code in the .au3 file and then use_HexToString to convert back and read the string.

When I get time to do it, I'll post the code!

[SadBunny]

I don't think there's something like ending a line in to escape the newline and continue the string, or anything... But how about a search&replace instead of hex code?

(This assumes you use SciTE.)

1. Paste the text straight into SciTE

2. Select the pasted text

3. Escape any doublequotes by search&replace " by "" (doublequote by double doublequote) in your selection

4. Select your text again

5. Then search&replace in regex mode, find:     (.*)     replace by:     $x = $x & "1" & @CRLF

6. If necessary, remove the last @CRLF manually.

Maybe there are much better ways to go about this, but this has often worked for me in the past when writing quick scripts requiring some multiline string containing other script code, for instance. Though I much prefer reading from file, because it's probably less work and faster