Search a word in a text

[sroprogger]

Okay here's my idea

I want to read a specific line of a text document, search it for a specific word and display that word

as a label in my GUI

Now my problem is

The word can differ, it can be 6 different words like: hello,no,yes,maybe,sir,yellow

i did some research and found this

StringRegExp and StringInStr - but they just give me numbers and i dont really know how to use them

The help file doesnt help me at all because i dont understand it

well thx for your answers

[TerarinK]

$sValue = "Hello, this is a test."
If StringRegExp($sValue, "(?i:hello|no|yes|maybe|sir|yellow)", 0) Then DoWhateverYouWant()

[sroprogger]

$sValue = "Hello, this is a test."
If StringRegExp($sValue, "(?i:hello|no|yes|maybe|sir|yellow)", 0) Then DoWhateverYouWant()

well - when i did this i got 1 on success - 0 on failure

Now that CAN help me - but im looking for an easier way since i would have to write 200 lines of code just for one thing using

StringRegExp -because there is actually 200 posibilities -

now is there a way to search a string - lets say 'hello<"name = 77618">' - for the value after 'hello<"name = ... and then save it to

another string ? if so could you please tell me

thx for your answers

[CodyBarrett]

Strininstr()

OR

stringtrimleft()  Stringtrimright()

OR

stringreplace()

whatever you need please CHECK THE HELP FILE its your best friend in autoit

[sroprogger]

Strininstr()

OR

stringtrimleft()  Stringtrimright()

OR

stringreplace()

whatever you need please CHECK THE HELP FILE its your best friend in autoit

but all those expressions do is check if that word is in there - is there an expression that can read a specific word at a specific place

and then diplay it onto the gui ?

if not ill have to go with the other expressions - but 200 lines of code x.x

well thx for your answers

[Inverted]

If you know what's before and after the string, then you can use StringBetween. You need to know something about the location of the string, it can't be found magically !

Edited February 6, 2009 by Inverted

[Malkey]

well - when i did this i got 1 on success - 0 on failure

Now that CAN help me - but im looking for an easier way since i would have to write 200 lines of code just for one thing using

StringRegExp -because there is actually 200 posibilities -

now is there a way to search a string - lets say 'hello<"name = 77618">' - for the value after 'hello<"name = ... and then save it to

another string ? if so could you please tell me

thx for your answers

This may give you some ideas.

#include <Array.au3>

; From post 
; http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=89105&view=findpost&p=640323
; - lets say 'hello<"name = 77618' - for the value after 'hello<"name = ... and 
; then save it to another string ?

$sString = 'Extra text here hello<' & '"' & 'name = 77618' & '"' & '> and here' 

; That which is found between the brackets, (), is returned to the array.
; This case: \d is any digit. * means repeat the previous character 0 or more times.
; So this will search the $sString for the text in the regular expression, and will
; return all occurances of the digits, if any, that appear after [hello<"name = ] and 
; before [">]
$array = StringRegExp($sString, 'hello<' & '"' & 'name = (\d*)' & '"' & '>' , 3) 

_ArrayDisplay($array)
$sAnotherString = _ArrayToString($array)
MsgBox(0,"A String",$sAnotherString)


#cs
; Easier to search whole of file instead of one line at a time.Will return an array 
; of all matches.
$sFile = "FullPath\and\FileName.txt" ; Full path if not in same script directory.
$sRegExp = 'hello<' & '"' & 'name = (\d*)' & '"' & '>' 
StringRegExp(FileRead($sFile), $sRegExp , 3)
#ce

[sroprogger]

This may give you some ideas.

#include <Array.au3>

; From post 
; http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=89105&view=findpost&p=640323
; - lets say 'hello<"name = 77618' - for the value after 'hello<"name = ... and 
; then save it to another string ?

$sString = 'Extra text here hello<' & '"' & 'name = 77618' & '"' & '> and here' 

; That which is found between the brackets, (), is returned to the array.
; This case: \d is any digit. * means repeat the previous character 0 or more times.
; So this will search the $sString for the text in the regular expression, and will
; return all occurances of the digits, if any, that appear after [hello<"name = ] and 
; before [">]
$array = StringRegExp($sString, 'hello<' & '"' & 'name = (\d*)' & '"' & '>' , 3) 

_ArrayDisplay($array)
$sAnotherString = _ArrayToString($array)
MsgBox(0,"A String",$sAnotherString)


#cs
; Easier to search whole of file instead of one line at a time.Will return an array 
; of all matches.
$sFile = "FullPath\and\FileName.txt" ; Full path if not in same script directory.
$sRegExp = 'hello<' & '"' & 'name = (\d*)' & '"' & '>' 
StringRegExp(FileRead($sFile), $sRegExp , 3)
#ce

i still dont get it .... ive been trying to understand it for 2 hours , reading the helfile, searching the forum, i just dont get it !

could you maybe do another example using the code i'll be using

so

$a = <option name="HP_LOW" value="85" />

[ find the value after 'value="... ]

Thx for your answers

EDIT::

with the _StringBetween

heres the code im trying to use

$a = '<option name="HP_LOW" value="85" />'
$string_between = _StringBetween($a,'value="','" />')
MsgBox(0,"",$string_between)

but it doesn't work - what am i doing wrong ?

Edited February 7, 2009 by sroprogger

[Inverted]

#Include <string.au3>

$a = '<option name="HP_LOW" value="85" />'
$string_between = _StringBetween($a,'value="','" />')
MsgBox(0,"",$string_between[0])

Helpfile says :

"Return Value

Success: A 0 based $array[0] contains the first found string.

"

[Authenticity]

#include <String.au3>
$a = '<option name="HP_LOW" value="85" />'
$string_between = _StringBetween($a,'value="','" />')
MsgBox(0,"",$string_between[0])

Read carefully the remarks as well as the parameters and return value.

[sroprogger]

thx to you all !!!!!! thank you so much

*happy* i figured it out and its working perfetly now !! its so cool

i love you haha ^^

well thank you for helping me !

[TerarinK]

You could also do this:

$sValue = '<option name="HP_LOW" value="85" />'
StringRegExp($sValue, "(?i)="(\w*)"", 3)

This will give you both HP_LOW and 85 in a array