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kc7aad

I'm sure this is gonna be easy, but I have spent lotsa time trying, and juts can't grasp my hands around this.. I need to strip a line of text out of a file. It's a simple .txt file at that!!
Here is an example of the text I have:
4954 page sent 08:46:13a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991277 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)
4976 page sent 08:46:14a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991316 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)
4978 page sent 08:46:14a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991588 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)
4972 page sent 08:46:15a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991284 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)
4920 page sent 08:46:15a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991285 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)
4981 page sent 08:46:15a 2 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991564 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)
4952 page sent 08:46:16a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991261 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)
4474 page sent 08:46:16a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991192 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)

This is an output of My in-house paging system loging file, and I want to be able to send things using Cellular SMS as well as thru to the pagers. In case someone doesn't want to carry a pager, and rather their cell phone.
The good news, is the Text portion of what I really want to send to the End User, is already defined as to how long it is. See the "D 36" in the messages... The "D" I believe stands for Digital, and the 36 is how many charachters are in the message.
So the first 4 numbers is the pager number itself. So if somehow I can search for thatin the text file, then go to the "D", figure out how many charachters I need to get, then copy the text and send it in a variable?
The rest of the text is pretty useless for what I ned to send to "Normal" users, but may be nice to ba able to send the some Technical People, in case we are doing trouble shooting. That's just an extra, though.

Hopefully this make some sense to yo, and someone will have an idea!

Thanks in advance...

Rod

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:42 am Post subject:

It looks like the lines are always the same length so something like this should work:

DaveR · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:09 am Post subject:

Or if the message text always starts with a tilde you could use something like:

kc7aad · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:08 am Post subject:

Well thanks guys for the responses. However, it's not quite what i'm looking for. I need to be able to search the text file (Hopefully in the background), then be able to output the result'd query to a variable. I have it working somewhat already with the code:

Hooligan · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:30 am Post subject:

Without knowing how the switches on "CMDMSGR.EXE" work, I can only speculate as to what might be happening... Perhaps the "-m" switch delimits at the first <space> character, in which case I'd run your text through a filter and replace all the <spaces> with underscores (_).

If the text file is large, you may want to open it with @binfile(), otherwise it would be much easier to load it into a list (as you are doing) and ignore anything beyond the first 10 lines.

Hooligan

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:11 am Post subject:

Try:

kc7aad · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:22 am Post subject:

I was thinking I should elaborate a little more... CMDMSGR.EXE uses the following 2 switches:
-tUSER.NAME - USER.NAME is defined by usernames in my server
-mMESSAGE - Is the Message to be sent.

Now.. MESSAGE can be longer by using ""'s so if I wanted to send a message to myself, on a command line I would enter:
cmdmsgr.exe -tEkholm.Rod -m"This is a test Message. I want to get it all."
My pager would receive "This is a test Message. I want to get it all."
The problem is, when I define my variable, whick might look like 4972 page sent 08:46:13a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991277 D 36 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL). Idealy when this program sees 4972, it would take the last part of this text, which is the actual message, and send it to the variable. Then I would like to be able to pass the ENTIRE variable to the command line.
Someone before said if the message always had the tilde in it... But it doesn't. However.. the 36 right before this example message, is the amount of the characters that are in the message. So counting them should be fairly easy, if I knew how. I know it can be done.

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:39 am Post subject:

DaveR · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:51 am Post subject:

How about this:

DaveR · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:03 am Post subject:

DaveR · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I was just thinking about the maximum length of a text message. SMS messages usually have a maximum character length of 160. If your pager has a message length longer than 99 characters does it appear as:

4972 page sent 08:46:13a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991277 D 100 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)

or:

4972 page sent 08:46:13a 4 12BA 0,000AN p3 1991277 D100 ~CANCEL E44 - DIST 9 TO HANDLE (LNL)

If the latter you'd need to change my previous example code to:

kc7aad · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject:

It is the later example... D100 Here's another question... Would it be better or a smarter way to PARSE the line, rather than just try and send the whole thing? The advantage then, is I would only be getting the relivant part of the message. And since I plan on trying to use this on a multi-person level, I knw they would not need to know anything more than just the message part.

As for your exaple Dave, So when I run it, I get the info message and that's fine.. I can convert the info into a run command and **should** be able to make it work. But what do I need to do to make it point to my .TXT file, rather than just the one liner example?

Unfortunatly this is proving to me to be a bit more than I bargained for!! But I figure if I keep stumbling on it, eventually I will learn to walk!!

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

Check my first example, it loads the text in from a file.

DaveR · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: