Reading line from file then matching it to a variable.

[Zingzi]

Hello folks,

I have stopped writing anything in Autoit for more than 4 years now and am getting back into it to do some stuff for my son's lacrosse team. Any help for this forgetful old fart would be very helpful.

 

How do you read a line of text from a file and if it matches a set variable, copy it to a new file and repeat till end of file?

 

For instance lets say there is a lacrosse team and each boy has a list of equipment.

 

John Doe

Helmet - CascadeR

Stick - Dpole

Chest - Warrior

 

Bob Pham

Helmet - STX

Stick - Attack

Chest - Brine

 

etc.....

 

I want to make a new file that shows just the sticks

 

Stick - Dpole

Stick - Attack

etc...

Edited March 27, 2015 by Zingzi

[SadBunny]

Was faster to write it than to complain about no code posted etc.

#include <File.au3>
_FileWriteFromArray('c:\tmp\test_output.txt', StringRegExp(FileRead('c:\tmp\test_input.txt'), "(?im)^Stick.*$", 3))

[kylomas]

Zingi,

Non-SRE way...

local $inFile = @scriptdir & '\lacross_team_data.txt'
local $outFile = @scriptdir & '\sticks.txt'

local $aData = stringsplit(fileread($inFile),@CRLF,3)

for $1 = 0 to UBound($aData) - 1
    if stringinstr($aData[$1],'stick') then filewrite($outfile, $aData[$1] & @CRLF)
Next

shellexecute($outfile)

This is the input filelacross_team_data.txt

kylomas