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tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hello

i have been playing with the LIST LOADFILE it works ok BUT i notice if you have a text box that display what is in the txt file you load and if the txt file has more then one line of text in it. It don't display it in the text box Sad

is there a way to have it display ONE line at a time then clear it then read second line of txt file,etc and have it display this in the text box? also to AS it reads each line of the text file have it store this to a var.

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

also to i see LIST LOADFILE don't like var... Sad

that or i'am doing somethimg wrong Smile

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 3:22 am Post subject:

I don't quite understand what you are trying to do by loading the text one line at a time.

As far as list loadfile,... not liking variables, I ususlly have to use the @shortname() function.

Post an example for me. Smile

Bill

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 3:32 am Post subject:

You might want to look at this topic also:

http://www.vdsworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=777

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

ok i have it reading one line at a time BUT if i have a big file it only read the first line then it stops Sad

and the var problem i will work on that after i get it to read the whole file

here is what i have

this code here i have so i can see it read the txt file line by line ( this is in my dilalog window

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

i know why it stops Sad

cuase if you have spaces in the txt file meaning this:

tim

tim 1

tim 2

it stops on the spaces Sad

any way to fix that so it reads the spaces?

thanks

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 3:51 am Post subject:

Tim wrote:

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 3:53 am Post subject:

What do you mean read spaces? If the empty string only contains spaces do something or not do something?

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

if there are spaces in the txt info..is there a way to have it skip the space so it won't stop?

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 3:56 am Post subject:

if you use %A = @trim(@item(1)), it will return the text without the return or any preceeding spaces up to the first letter in the list item.

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 3:59 am Post subject:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hummm i added that line like you say and it still stops BUT it stops on a line that DON't have spaces next Sad

i look thru the txt file and some of the data is like this:

tim 1

tim2
tim3
tim3

tim4

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

txt file is made by other non-vds program Sad

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 4:12 am Post subject:

The only other thing I can think of is to loop through the whole file looking for @cr()'s @chr(9) and removing them with @strdel() before looping through the file to view it's contents.

Maybe someone else has a better idea!? Confused

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

i got it working Smile

now

how to make LIST LOADFILE work with varibles? meaning this

LIST LOADFILE ,tim, %T

thanks