xcaliber13 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Could someone help with this problem I am having? Data looks like this: Name Address City State Name Address City State Name Address City State What I am trying to do is strip the white spaces between City and State Global $iData _FileReadToArray('C:\Temp\temp.txt', $iData) Local $iFinalData[UBound($iData)] For $i = 0 To UBound($iData) -1 $iFinalData[$i] = StringReplace($iData[$i], "STATE", StringStripWS("STATE", $STR_STRIPALL), 0) Next _FileWriteFromArray('C:\Temp\temp.txt', $iFinalData, Default, Default) The above code does not strip the white spaces. Where am I going wrong? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jguinch Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 (edited) ? $iFinalData[$i] = StringRegExpReplace($iData[$i], "City\h+(?=State)", " ") Edit : Sorry, but I'm not sure to understand ; these lines must be the same in the whole file or it's just an example ? Edited September 26, 2016 by jguinch Spoiler Network configuration UDF, _DirGetSizeByExtension, _UninstallList Firefox ConfigurationArray multi-dimensions, Printer Management UDF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikell Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Providing an extract of the real file would allow a really serious help ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I'd even add: provide as well in high priority the most pathological examples you can find/imagine. Let me start and tell us how you're going to determine what are the different components of this record (guessing US): Joe Hunter Garrett 3rd 4050 Pink Rabbit with Blue Eyes avenue 87901 Truth or Consequences New Mexico This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skysnake Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Hi There are other resources, but this may help explain the problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character. What you are seeing as white space may be TABs or HTML or who knows what else. Try opening that file with Notepad ++ from here https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ and see what is in there. Skysnake Why is the snake in the sky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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