Stringregexp : how to detect 2 letters in a line

[florian2]

I want the script to detect and erase every line who have the letters "a" and "e" in it.

ex.txt :

aeuio

euia

nike

nujik

I want the script to erase "aeuio" and "euia", so that it remain the following :

nike

nujik

thanks !

Edited March 1, 2018 by florian2

[Melba23]

florian2,

So what code have you tried that has not worked?

M23

[florian2]

https://www.autoitscript.fr/autoit3/docs/tutorials/regexp/regexp.htm

the exemples here show how to find the letters in a specific order, but not in random place

[jguinch]

  On 3/1/2018 at 9:48 AM, florian2 said:

I want the script to detect and erase every line who have the letters "a" and "e" in it.

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Maybe the script will detect the "e" in "nike", not like you (I joke)

[florian2]

it need to have both a and e so nike need to remain

[Gianni]

tip: you could have a look to the StringInStr() and to the AND logical operator .....

... sorry, I see you want to use regexp ....

Edited March 1, 2018 by Chimp

[florian2]

nah any tip is welcomed

[mikell]

This removes lines which contain both "a" and "e"

$txt = "aeuio" & @crlf & _ 
    "euia" & @crlf & _ 
    "nike" & @crlf & _ 
    "nujik"

$txt = StringRegExpReplace($txt, '(?m)(?|^.*?a.*?e.*$|^.*?e.*?a.*$)\R?', "")

msgbox(0,"", $txt)

 

Edited March 1, 2018 by mikell

[Subz]

FIrstly I suck at RegEx so take the following with a grain of salt.

#include <Array.au3>
Local $aSample[4] = ["aeuio", "euia", "nike", "nujik"]
_ArrayDisplay($aSample, "Sample Before")
For $i = UBound($aSample) - 1 To 0 Step - 1
    If StringRegExp($aSample[$i], "a.*e|e.*a") = 1 Then _ArrayDelete($aSample, $i)
Next
_ArrayDisplay($aSample, "Sample After")

 

[mikell]

Sorry. I didn't pay attention to the "both". Previous post edited

[florian2]

thanks to both, but my challenge is to erase the lines from an external .txt, wich itself have many lines.

 

Like, i want to rewrite a new .txt file without the lines, or directly delete the concerned lines from it.

Edited March 1, 2018 by florian2

[Subz]

Just use FileRead then FileOpen, FileWrite and then FileClose with the string or array results (I would go with mikell example)  

[mikell]

...or _FileReadToArray and _FileWriteFromArray in a similar way (with Subz example) 

[florian2]

ok thanks ill try that

[florian2]

I found that, am i in the right direction ? 

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#include <FileConstants.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

;Assign the file path to a variable
Local $sFilePath = "C:\AutomationDevelopers\temp.txt"

;Open the file temp.txt in append mode. If the folder C:\AutomationDevelopers does not exist, it will be created.
Local $hFileOpen = FileOpen($sFilePath, $FO_APPEND + $FO_CREATEPATH)

;Display a message box in case of any errors.
If $hFileOpen = -1 Then
   MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "An error occurred when opening the file.")
EndIf

;Write a set of lines for demonstration
FileWriteLine($hFileOpen, "This is the first line")
FileWriteLine($hFileOpen, "This is the second line")
FileWriteLine($hFileOpen, "This is the third line")
FileWriteLine($hFileOpen, "This is the last line")

;Set the file position to beginning for reading the data from the beginning of the file.
FileSetPos($hFileOpen, 0, $FILE_BEGIN)

;Read the 2nd line of data from the file using the handle returned by FileOpen
Local $sFileRead = FileReadLine ($hFileOpen,2)

;Display the data.
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Automation Developers", "The second line is:" & @CRLF & $sFileRead)

;Read the last line of data from the file using the handle returned by FileOpen
Local $sFileRead = FileReadLine ($hFileOpen,-1)

;Display the data.
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Automation Developers", "The last line is:" & @CRLF & $sFileRead)

;Close the handle returned by FileOpen.
FileClose($hFileOpen)

 

[florian2]

But there is millions of lines to check, so i dunno if fileopen/read can do the trick then

Edited March 1, 2018 by florian2

[Earthshine]

reading one line at a time to an array, then process array? will that do it? that way, it will take many small swipes at the line. you could even break it down to word by word search, no?

[mikell]

Maximum string length in AutoIt is 2,147,483,647 . Have a try...

[Earthshine]

I was thinking going through the file, like this above... check it. there is example code in that thread I think you might find interesting. Happy programming.

Edited March 1, 2018 by Earthshine

[florian2]

so far :

#include <file.au3>

$file = FileOpen("C:\AutomationDevelopers\temp.txt", 0)

While 1
    $line = FileReadLine($file)
    If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop
    $line= StringRegExpReplace($line, '(?m)(?|^.*?a.*?e.*$|^.*?e.*?a.*$)\R?', "")
    MsgBox(0,'',$line)
WEnd
FileClose($file)

at least it show correcly line by line the right word, that encouraging. but how to actually delete the line in the file ?

 

 

 

 

Edited March 1, 2018 by florian2