80 Character Fixed Length Help

[KeeWay]

hello i have to build a script that will take some text files that the text on each line is roughly 1-4096 characters in width. i need to remove the CRLF's and convert the text to 80 characters wide, can anyone point me to some sample scripts or what function in autoit i would use?

thanks

James

Edited August 4, 2009 by KeeWay

[JSThePatriot]

So basically what you're wanting to do is read in a text file, strip all new line characters, and then make the document have new lines at 80 characters?

You would need to do this yourself. If you could turn it into a function of some sort, then maybe release that for public use and comments in the Example Scripts forum. You could also search there to see if someone has already done something similar.

Some functions you may want to look at:

FileOpen()
FileRead()
FileClose()
StringReplace()
FileWrite()
FileWriteLine()?

Those are just the basic ones I can think of off the top of my head that you may want to look into to help you with this project. However, I don't believe there is any completed code doing exactly what you're wanting, but it shouldn't be hard to create such a script.

I hope this helps,

Jarvis

[Szhlopp]

=)

MsgBox(0, "", _StringBlock("HAHAHAAAAAAAAA" & @CRLF & "This is funny", 4))


Func _StringBlock($sString, $iWide)
    Local $ReturnString
    $sString = StringRegExpReplace($sString, @CRLF, "")
    $sString = StringRegExpReplace($sString, @CR, "")
    $Repeats = Floor(StringLen($sString) / $iWide)
    For $I = 0 To $Repeats
        $ReturnString &= StringLeft($sString, $iWide) & @CRLF
        $sString = StringTrimLeft($sString, $iWide)
    Next
    Return $ReturnString
EndFunc

[KeeWay]

=)

MsgBox(0, "", _StringBlock("HAHAHAAAAAAAAA" & @CRLF & "This is funny", 4))


Func _StringBlock($sString, $iWide)
    Local $ReturnString
    $sString = StringRegExpReplace($sString, @CRLF, "")
    $sString = StringRegExpReplace($sString, @CR, "")
    $Repeats = Floor(StringLen($sString) / $iWide)
    For $I = 0 To $Repeats
        $ReturnString &= StringLeft($sString, $iWide) & @CRLF
        $sString = StringTrimLeft($sString, $iWide)
    Next
    Return $ReturnString
EndFunc

wow thanks for that, this worked out perfect >_< ...

i am still new to this and was looking at the help using the fileread function but this is so much better/cleaner.. i have a lot to learn.

thanks

James

[JSThePatriot]

wow thanks for that, this worked out perfect >_< ...

i am still new to this and was looking at the help using the fileread function but this is so much better/cleaner.. i have a lot to learn.

thanks

James

James,

Continuing to work with FileRead() so you can get the text to send that function is crucial, but he certainly did a decent job of getting you some working code. I hope you are able to learn a lot from it! GL with AutoIt!

Jarvis