Read a .TXT File Hosted Online..?

[cypher175]

Are there any functions to read a .txt file thats hosted online without having to 1st download it..??

[jvanegmond]

Are there any functions to read a .txt file thats hosted online without having to 1st download it..??

No. You can't read a file without reading it.

If you are referring to not storing it on the hard disk, then yes.

Edited February 26, 2009 by Manadar

[cypher175]

uh which is it yes or no your response is confusing..??

I want to read the hosted .txt file without having to download it to disk..??

[jvanegmond]

Yes, you can. But it's not worth doing it, looking at the time it takes to develop such code.

Use InetGet to a temporary file and directory.

[ResNullius]

Yes, you can. But it's not worth doing it, looking at the time it takes to develop such code.

Use InetGet to a temporary file and directory.

Or _INetGetSource () from the INet UDF...

[cypher175]

Is there anyway to do a _FileReadToArray with _INetGetSource without having to download the .txt file to disk..??

I have a hosted .txt file that has a website URL on each line that needs to get read into an Array so that i can use each URL on the .txt in a For Statement..??

[JohnMC]

Is there anyway to do a _FileReadToArray with _INetGetSource without having to download the .txt file to disk..??

I have a hosted .txt file that has a website URL on each line that needs to get read into an Array so that i can use each URL on the .txt in a For Statement..??

you should be able to use _INetGetSource to get the file to memory then use string split with a line end character

edit: read help file notes about using @CRLF... you should only use @CR OR @LF

Edited February 27, 2009 by JohnMC

[James]

Could you not use the _IE functions and read the body data?

[JohnMC]

Could you not use the _IE functions and read the body data?

ya, but my guess is by saying hes getting a .txt file, its only raw data, not html

#include <INet.au3>
$source=_INetGetSource ("http://www.myurl.com/file.txt")
$source_array=StringSplit ($source,@CR)

should be whats needed here