Write and read *.* all files

[Him]

Hi everyone, I'm new to Autoit and I'd like to create a program to write to any file (not just .txt or .doc etc) and to read this text when asked.

Is this possible under AutoIt? Happy Xmas

[FuryCell]

Are you asking how to work with binary files? If so take a look at BinaryString() in the helpfile. Merry Christmas to you as well.

Edited December 26, 2006 by SolidSnake

[_Kurt]

Look up: FileWrite() and FileRead() in your helpfile

Welcome to the forums and Merry Christmas!

Kurt

Edited December 26, 2006 by _Kurt

[Him]

I'd like to input some text to an .mp3 file for example and read it with my program later.

I want the mp3 file to continue be functionable however. Thanks!

[nitekram]

I'd like to input some text to an .mp3 file for example and read it with my program later.

I want the mp3 file to continue be functionable however. Thanks!

Good luck with that - AutoIt would not be the program needed to write to MP3's or any other file except for ASCII text. Each program that writes a file will use its own format. If you write something to read and write to that format then maybe you will get a chance to do what you are talking about.

Maybe someone else can chime in about file headers - can they be written and retrieved maybe like 128 chars or something - might need hex editor?

[_Kurt]

I'm not sure if you are trying to change .mp3 data or whatever, because I believe that will not work. Let's make an example real quick for you:

;THIS IS UNTESTED, probably works though
#include <File.au3>
GuiCreate("example")
$input = GuiCtrlCreateInput("",50, 50)
$ok    = GuiCtrlCreateButton("OK", 50, 80)
$get   = GuiCtrlCreateButton("Read file",50, 120)
GuiSetState()
While 1
    $msg = GuiGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $ok
            $read = GuiCtrlread($input)
            FileWrite(@scriptdir & "\test.dat", $read)
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $msg = $get
            $rd = FileRead(@scriptdir & "\test.dat")
            GuiCtrlSetData($input, $rd)
    EndSelect
WEnd

UNTESTED

If this isn't what you want, just tell me.

Kurt

[Him]

I'd like to input some comments to any file and read them using my program.

for example input the lyric of a song to an wav file and read them later using my programme.

Is this possible? Thanks in advance!

[_Kurt]

I have no experience in wav files or anything, can't really help. If you give me more precise information (i.e. you want to find all the x's in the file, or you want to find x in your file and display it in your program).

>< Nothing I can do,

Kurt

[Him]

I want to write data to the end of the file and read it later. It could start for instance $x = "HLGEGJKASDFHGQJKWHT789T3KIU5Y73QTGUIAWHI"

My programme will find $x in the file and will read from $x to the end and display it.

[_Kurt]

Okay, I think I understand most of what you want. Let's start by solving the

It could start for instance $x = "HLGEGJKASDFHGQJKWHT789T3KIU5Y73QTGUIAWHI"

My programme will find $x in the file and will read from $x to the end and display it.

Okay, so let's say that $x = "blahblahblah TEST blahblahblah" and the TEST part of $x changes alot throughout the file, but the blahblahblah part never changes. So let's say the written part of the file is:

blahblahblah THIS blahblahblah

blahblahblah IS A blahblahblah

blahblahblah TEST blahblahblah

You'd use something like this:

$file = FileRead("file.txt")
$reg = StringRegExp($file, "blahblahblah (.*?) blahblahblah", 3)
Msgbox(0,"",$reg[0] & @CRLF & $reg[1] & @CRLF & $reg[2])

This would come up as a message box that says this:

THIS

IS A

TEST

Hopefully I explained this correctly, gotta run,

Kurt

[FuryCell]

Lazy cat wrote a udf to read mp3 tags. It doesn't support writing however.

http://www.autoitscript.com/fileman/users/Lazycat/udfs.html

You could also try storing the data in a files NTFS stream.

Edited December 26, 2006 by SolidSnake