newbie wants to read in specific line numbers from plain text file

[rossnixon]

Hi all, if anyone still uses this forum...

I don't think I need to post all my code, but it goes like this.

I read in files of certain extensions from a directory using _FileListToArray() 
Should be no problem as I pulled this from an old working script from 2007.

For each file, I have a function that creates new files with boilerplate text plus various text from the original file.

Here is the first part of the function:

Func ProcessFile($name)
    $text = StringSplit(FileRead($name), @CRLF, 1)
    $text2 = $header & "File" & ' "' & StringMid($name,1,stringLen($name)-4) & '.ecw"' & @CRLF & 'Type "RASTER"'& @CRLF
    
    $minX = FileReadLine($name,line=5)
    $maxY = FileReadLine($name,line=6)

Error message is:
$minX = FileReadLine($name,line=5)
$minX = FileReadLine($name,^ ERROR

Error: Unknown function name.

 

 

Edited July 19, 2024 by rossnixon
putting into code format

[bdr529]

 $minX = FileReadLine($name,5)
 $maxY = FileReadLine($name,6)

[rossnixon]

9 minutes ago, bdr529 said:

 $minX = FileReadLine($name,5)
 $maxY = FileReadLine($name,6)

Thanks Mr Blue! 🕶️

[TheSaint]

You can also use _FileReadToArray instead, and see the array number as line number.