Help with FileReadLine()

[Just_Plain_Cool]

Hi All...

I have written a script in AutoIt that reads in a date/time string from a file and then when that time comes, launches a program. I then wrote a VB app to create and manage the file containing the dates and times.

When I created the schedule file by hand, it was simply a text file. Each line contained:

MM/DD/YY HH:MM

With this format, everything works fine.

However, when VB saves out strings to a text file, it outputs them with quotation marks around them:

"MM/DD/YY HH:MM"

With the quotes, FileReadLine() is setting @error to -1.

I could read the file in one byte at a time, adding each character to a string and discarding the quotation marks. When this routine came to a CR/LF, it would start another string. I'm sure this would work, but I was hoping for a more elegant/less time consuming answer...

Any takers???

Thanks in advance,

JPC

[ZeDMIN]

working fine here?

$handle = FileOpen("test.txt", 0)
$var1 = FileReadLine($handle)
$var2 = FileReadLine($handle)
MsgBox(0,'', $var1 & $var2)
FileClose($handle)

test.txt contains:

"MM/DD/YY HH:MM"

"11/25/80 12:00"

he reads it just fine and puts it in msgbox.

maybe you have mispelled something?

it would be useful if you post your code.

Greetings,

ZeD

[Just_Plain_Cool]

working fine here?

$handle = FileOpen("test.txt", 0)
$var1 = FileReadLine($handle)
$var2 = FileReadLine($handle)
MsgBox(0,'', $var1 & $var2)
FileClose($handle)

test.txt contains:

he reads it just fine and puts it in msgbox.

maybe you have mispelled something?

it would be useful if you post your code.

Greetings,

ZeD

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi ZeD,

Upon hearing that it was working on your end, I went about trying to figure it out here. As is usually the case when I spend too much time trying to track down a bug, it was something simple. I had made an error when I changed how I am parsing the string to compare it to today's date. Gee, you mean "09/20/0 is not the same as 09/20/04?

Thank you for your help,

JPC