Loading an array from a text file

[qwaszx]

Hello all,

I am completely new to the autoit language, but I have dabbled in other programming languages.

I would really appreciate any help getting my script to work. Here is what the script I am trying to make does:

1) Opens txt file formatted like a new array for each line like this:

["string1", "string2", "string3"]

2) Reads off a specified line from the file and types out the strings found in that array using send()

This is where I get errors. Let me show you what I have so far.

Dim $array[1]
$array = FileReadLine($file,$line)
$i = 0
While UBound($array) >= $i
    $string = $array[$i]
    Send($string)
    $i = $i + 1
WEnd

I've simplified it and changed the variable names so that hopefully it is easy to understand what I'm trying to do.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[TheCuz]

First, welcome to AutoIt

In your code, you Dim $array as a one dimension array, but then on the next line, you reassign $array to a string from the FileReadLine.

I think you meant to have it as $array[0] = FileReadLine($file,$line).

Also, if you are going to add more things to the $array, you will have to ReDim the array to be able to add new elements, it doesn't increase the size of the array by itself.

Hope that helps...

Edited June 5, 2008 by TheCuz

[Airwolf]

You've declared your array with only one value. This means anything above $array[0] is not a valid variable. You should use _FileReadToArray() to populate an array with the file's contents, then step through it line by line.

#include <File.au3>

$file = "test.log"
Dim $array
_FileReadToArray($file,$array)
For $i = 1 To $array[0]
    $string = StringSplit(StringRegExpReplace($array[$i],'[]["]',""),",")
    For $x = 1 To $string[0]
        MsgBox(0,"",$string[$x])
    Next
Next

[qwaszx]

Thanks for the fast replies. I see my mistake in making $array a string so using FileReadLine will not work. I looked up the help file for _FileReadToArray and it seems to be the right function to use. I tried using your code, but it gave me some errors (variable undefined) and I have no idea where to start fixing it. If anyone could explain exactly how this all works or if there is a better way to do this I would be extremely grateful.

[Airwolf]

Thanks for the fast replies. I see my mistake in making $array a string so using FileReadLine will not work. I looked up the help file for _FileReadToArray and it seems to be the right function to use. I tried using your code, but it gave me some errors (variable undefined) and I have no idea where to start fixing it. If anyone could explain exactly how this all works or if there is a better way to do this I would be extremely grateful.

Make sure you are using the latest version of AutoIt, and the #include line must be at the top for the function to work. If you still have problems, can you paste your error?