Fileread Problem

[Frankie Paul]

hoi,hoi all,

i having trouble with a script i was to read 4 field from a file and take though values and write them to another spot the problem is there are lines of junk in between that i need to ignore and in some cases i only want to use one work noth the whole line is there anything i can can do to do this if you can please help

thank you

Frankie PAul

[Jos]

I believe this "one-liner" contains 2 questions:

1. yes

2. post what you have.

[seandisanti]

hoi,hoi all,

i having trouble with a script i was to read 4 field from a file and take though values and write them to another spot the problem is there are lines of junk in between that i need to ignore and in some cases i only want to use one work noth the whole line is there anything i can can do to do this if you can please help

thank you

Frankie PAul

that is called parsing, just so you know, and it can be done very easily with the string manipulation functions in AutoIT. in the help file, go to the index tab, and just type string. you'll see alot of string functions to use parsing your data. also, because some level of parsing is needed in almost any I/O operations for data that is beyond the scripts control, you can find alot of examples of string manipulation and parsing in posts on this forum.

[Frankie Paul]

I believe this "one-liner" contains 2 questions:

1. yes

2. post what you have.

ok

test.au3

[Jos]

something like this ?

; Read in lines of text until the EOF is reached
While 1
    $line = FileReadLine($file)
    If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop

    Select
        Case StringLeft($line, 2) = "//"
        ;
        Case StringLeft($line, 4) = "Id = "
        ;
    EndSelect
WEnd