search string in file?

[ovideo]

i need a function to search for a string in a file and i can't seem to find it in the help

i know _replacestringinfile would tell me if the string can be found in the file but i need a function that returns something (the number of the line where the string is found would be ideal)

any ideas, anyone?

[The Kandie Man]

i need a function to search for a string in a file and i can't seem to find it in the help

i know _replacestringinfile would tell me if the string can be found in the file but i need a function that returns something (the number of the line where the string is found would be ideal)

any ideas, anyone?

You will have to write your own function to do that. Look at FileOpen, FileRead, FileClose, StringInStr, StringSplit, and _FileReadToArray.

If you want, we could help, but you fail to mention the input file type and the input file size. Is it a text file? Is it 100MB, 5MB, 1KB?

All this stuff is extremely important when considering how you are going to write a function that reads a file and searches for strings inside the file.

- The Kandie Man ;-)

[ovideo]

it is a text file, about 3-4MB in size

all i need to do is search for a string (which may contain line breaks) and read the line above it

edit: the string WILL contain line breaks

and another edit: thank you for offering to help but i'm sure you have better things to do

i'll work around it, that's part of the fun

Edited February 1, 2008 by ovideo

[rasim]

it is a text file, about 3-4MB in size

all i need to do is search for a string (which may contain line breaks) and read the line above it

edit: the string WILL contain line breaks

and another edit: thank you for offering to help but i'm sure you have better things to do

i'll work around it, that's part of the fun

Hi! What is the line breaks, line feed?

Example

$string = FileRead("c:\test.txt")

$result = StringRegExp($string, "^.*\w", 1)

MsgBox(0, "", $result[0])