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How do I search for text in a particular position in a row. I know FileRead will get the row but how do I say search after x amount of characters.

For instance,

06/15/2007             06/18/2007               Cumulative

That is the text (Row 9) in my file I want to search. However, I need to check that second date against the current date. Both dates change so I can't use _StringBetween. I know the string I want starts at 109 and ends at 119

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The following seems to be my answer, but this method is limited and seems inefficient

FileOpen($filetoRead,0)
ConsoleWrite('Line:       '&FileReadLine($filetoRead,9)&@CRLF)
Local $StringBetween = _StringBetween (FileReadLine($filetoRead,9),'               ','                C')
Local $answerp1 = StringTrimLeft(FileReadLine($filetoRead,9),108)
Local $answerp2 = StringTrimRight($answerp1,26)
ConsoleWrite('Amount:       '&StringLen('                Cumulative')&@CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Check Date: '&$answerp2&@CRLF)
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How do I search for text in a particular position in a row. I know FileRead will get the row but how do I say search after x amount of characters.

For instance,

06/15/2007             06/18/2007               Cumulative

That is the text (Row 9) in my file I want to search. However, I need to check that second date against the current date. Both dates change so I can't use _StringBetween. I know the string I want starts at 109 and ends at 119

#include <array.au3>
$string = "                   06/15/2007               06/18/2007                Cumulative    "
$pattern = '^\s*([^\s]*)\s*([^\s]*)\s*([^\s]*)\s*$'

$values = StringRegExp($string,$pattern,1)

_ArrayDisplay($values)

Then search in the row you need.

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WOW!!!! Thank you!!!! WAAAAAAAY COOL

I don't really understand what the below means though. I'm reading the Manual, but I'm still not understanding. I don't want to regurgitate this info every time.

$pattern = '^\s*([^\s]*)\s*([^\s]*)\s*([^\s]*)\s*$'

EDIT: wording

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WOW!!!! Thank you!!!! WAAAAAAAY COOL

I don't really understand what the below means though. I'm reading the Manual, but I'm still not understanding. I don't want to regurgitate this info every time.

$pattern = '^\s*([^\s]*)\s*([^\s]*)\s*([^\s]*)\s*$'

EDIT: wording

it's a regular expression. See here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html

The expression '^\s*([^\s]*)\s*([^\s]*)\s*([^\s]*)\s*$' means:

^\s* = any whitespace (space, tabs, etc.)

([^\s]*) = any NON-whitespace AND remember

etc.

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Ok, I'm not getting this...

Here's what I'm trying to break into four separate rows

BILL WILDS                      9,700.48               610,633.74                     1.11

Doing the following only gets me "BILL" in the array[0]. Why?

Local $StringtoBreak = $fileArray[12]
ConsoleWrite('String to Break:   '&$StringtoBreak&@CRLF)
Local $pattern = '^\s*([^\s]*[^\s]*)'
Local $BroketoColumns = StringRegExp($StringtoBreak,$pattern,1)
If @error Then MsgBox(0,'Error with StringRegExp',@error&'   '&@extended)
    
_ArrayDisplay($BroketoColumns)

Additionally, I can't seem to find what $ means

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Ok, I'm not getting this...

Here's what I'm trying to break into four separate rows

BILL WILDS                      9,700.48               610,633.74                     1.11

Doing the following only gets me "BILL" in the array[0]. Why?

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YXlEaXNwbGF5KCYjMDM2O0Jyb2tldG9Db2x1bW5zKQ==--><!--eg

Additionally, I can't seem to find what $ means

$ = end of string.

Do you have a file example, something that shows a whole list of information?

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An example of me being lazy :rolleyes:

#include <array.au3>

$sString = "                                    BILL WILDS                        9,700.48               610,633.74                      1.11"
$sPattern = '(?s)(?i)\s+(\w+\s\w*|.*?)(?m:$|\s)'
$aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sPattern, 3)
_ArrayDisplay($aArray)

Edit:

Ugh... what the hell is wrong with the code after editing or comments?

Edited by SmOke_N

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Maybe you should try out StringTrimLeft/StringTrimRight, StringInStr, StringLeft/StringRight etc. functions and see if you can work something out like that(getting a hold of using strings is a good knowledge to have imo. :rolleyes:)

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An example of me being lazy :rolleyes:

c2--><!--I2luY2x1ZGUgJmx0O2FycmF5LmF1MyZndDsKCiYjMDM2O3NTdHJpbmcgPSAmcXVvdDsgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg
ICAgICAgICAgICBCSUxMIFdJTERTICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgOSw3MDAuNDggICAgICAgICAgICAgICA2MTAsNjMz
Ljc0ICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDEuMTEmcXVvdDsKJiMwMzY7c1BhdHRlcm4gPSAmIzM5Oyg/cykoP2kpJiMwOTI7cysoJiMwOTI7dysmIzA5MjtzJiMwOTI7dyp8Lio/KSg/bTomIzAzNjt8JiMwOTI7cykmIzM5OwomIzAzNjthQXJyYXkgPSBTdHJpbmdSZWdFeHAoJiMwMzY7c1N0cmluZywgJiMwMzY7c1Bh
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Edit:

Ugh... what the hell is wrong with the code after editing or comments?

seems to be a bug after the forum software upgrade.

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Freefly, I originally was achieving my goal using the String functions you mentioned. However, doing so isn't dynamic (at least how I was doing it).

Smoke_N, that's awesome. I'm still not entirely understanding the differences between all the symbols. I went to http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2007/regular_...ssions_tutorial but I'm still confused. I'm not really picking this up well at all.

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seems to be a bug after the forum software upgrade.

Let's bow down to Jon, and pray for him to fix it! :rambo:

Freefly, I originally was achieving my goal using the String functions you mentioned. However, doing so isn't dynamic (at least how I was doing it).

Hmm, well I think you probably could make it dynamic, you just have to make it detect what kind of content the row contains. Or try to understand the RegExp stuff

Edit:

damnit :rolleyes: my name is FreeFry xD

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Let's bow down to Jon, and pray for him to fix it! :rolleyes:

Hmm, well I think you probably could make it dynamic, you just have to make it detect what kind of content the row contains. Or try to understand the RegExp stuff

huh?

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Hmm, I was under the influence that

" 06/15/2007 06/18/2007 Cumulative"

and

" BILL WILDS 9,700.48 610,633.74 1.11"

was two different rows, and that you might somehow identify what type of "data" the row contains, and make a dynamic, yet in a way, static detection system, and that way get what you want from the rows

Edit:

whops

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Hmm, I was under the influence that

" 06/15/2007 06/18/2007 Cumulative"

and

" BILL WILDS 9,700.48 610,633.74 1.11"

was two different rows, and that you might somehow what type of "data" the row contains, and make a dynamic, yet in a way, static detection system, and that way get what you want from the rows

:rolleyes:

Are you sure that influence didn't stem over till the 20th?

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Hmm, I was under the influence that

" 06/15/2007 06/18/2007 Cumulative"

and

" BILL WILDS 9,700.48 610,633.74 1.11"

was two different rows, and that you might somehow what type of "data" the row contains, and make a dynamic, yet in a way, static detection system, and that way get what you want from the rows

yeah I am just trying to make a var for each "column" in each row, so I can use it.

I was confused on what you meant by the Jon stuff.

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:rolleyes:

Are you sure that influence didn't stem over till the 20th?

woot :x

yeah I am just trying to make a var for each "column" in each row, so I can use it.

I was confused on what you meant by the Jon stuff.

Yes, sorry, I posted right after your post, I was responding to Sm0ke_N's post about the forum bug, I edited my post to make it a little clearer. :rambo: I'm a little bit tired now doh xD

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