reading through and editing text

[Joseph]

i'm trying to make something that will read through characters in a txt file and replace or enter what is needed, what would be the best way to do this?

[TehWhale]

Maybe..

For $i=1 to _FileCountLines($File)
$Read = _FileReadLine($File, $i)
$Write = StringReplace($Read, "5", "6")
_FileWriteLine($File, $Write, $i)
Next

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NON-WORKING EXAMPLE, just to show you the basics, of how to do that.

[Joseph]

could u make one working example of replacing text asdf in a notepad txt with 1234, i'm not sure how important the variables and stuff are in that

[TehWhale]

Create a .txt file called: script.txt in the same location as this script, and in script.txt put:

asdf line one blah asdf kdhjajhasdf 454a
4a5s4f5t7 asdfasdf 445d44asdf45a44

Then run the code below

#include <File.au3>

$File = @ScriptDir & "\script.txt"

For $i=1 To _FileCountLines($File)
    $Hwnd = FileOpen($File, 0)
    $Read = FileReadLine($Hwnd, $i)
    FileClose($Hwnd)
    $Write = StringReplace($Read, "asdf", "1234")
    _FileWriteToLine($File, $i, $Write, 1)
Next

[Joseph]

ok that helps a lot

from the code that u gave me, it replaces the text that needs to be replaced but then how could i replace asdf with 1234 if there is a string that has only at least asd or at least sdf

[rasim]

joemac4130

SwiftBurns

I think this will easier and faster:

$sFile = "c:\test.txt"

$sRead = FileRead($sFile)
$sRead = StringReplace($sRead, "asdf", "1234")

$hFile = FileOpen($sFile, 2)
FileWrite($hFile, $sRead)
FileClose($hFile)

[Joseph]

thanks for the lighter code

ok say i have lots of text and there are urls in the textfile below from a gethandle function but some needs to be taken out, the !@#$ characters and only keep the text that has http and .com at the end and seperate by commas

http://www.website1234.com http://www.internetsite99.net !@#$ http://www.notadotcom.net www.dotnetfx.com !@#$ http://youngmetroent.awardspace.com !@#$ variousunwantedtext ..,,...agghh http://demopros.awardspace.com !@#$..aghh!

so it would read the text file and rewrite it as only

http://www.website1234.com , http://youngmetroent.awardspace.com , http://demopros.awardspace.com

[rasim]

joemac4130

from the code that u gave me, it replaces the text that needs to be replaced but then how could i replace asdf with 1234 if there is a string that has only at least asd or at least sdf

Example:

$sRead = "Helloasdf asdfworld new astest"
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[Joseph]

man that is some leet stuff i finally got it thanks