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$read does NOT work, but $readn DOES #123654 25/06/05 09:38 PM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 78 Moscow, Russia M MauS OP Babel fish
OP MauS Babel fish M Joined: May 2003 Posts: 78 Moscow, Russia	Code: ; file.txt contains several lines, one of them is "Blah the universe" var %Bl = Blah the universe echo -a BZZ $read(file.txt,npts,%Bl) echo -a BZZ $readn The script returns: BZZ BZZ 3 (that's an example, i don't paste all my code here) How's that possible?! Why "Blah the universe" doesn't show up after "BZZ"?! How do i fix this? -= endless in a victory of a yourself =-

Re: $read does NOT work, but $readn DOES #123655 25/06/05 09:53 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327	When you use the 's' flag $read will return the text after the part you scanned the file for, so in this case it looks for data after "Blah the universe" and there isn't any. If you change the search to Blah it should return BZZ the universe. New username: hixxy

Re: $read does NOT work, but $readn DOES #123656 25/06/05 10:31 PM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 78 Moscow, Russia M MauS OP Babel fish
OP MauS Babel fish M Joined: May 2003 Posts: 78 Moscow, Russia	How do i make it return the whole line? Different keys maybe? I don't want to make an extra $read just to get what it already reads but can't display.. PS Thanks so much! Last edited by MauS; 25/06/05 10:38 PM. -= endless in a victory of a yourself =-

Re: $read does NOT work, but $readn DOES #123657 25/06/05 10:36 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327	To return the whole line you could substitute the s flag for the w flag and use Blah * as the text to search for. New username: hixxy

Re: $read does NOT work, but $readn DOES #123658 25/06/05 10:48 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,962 Norwich, UK S starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood
starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,962 Norwich, UK	Well you already know what the start of the line looks like because you just inputted it to $read() to search for it. Code: ; file.txt contains several lines, one of them is "Blah the universe" var %Bl = Blah the universe echo -a BZZ [color:red]%B1[/color] $read(file.txt,npts,%Bl) echo -a BZZ $readn Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and stupid comments are intentional.

Re: $read does NOT work, but $readn DOES #123659 26/06/05 08:15 AM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 78 Moscow, Russia M MauS OP Babel fish
OP MauS Babel fish M Joined: May 2003 Posts: 78 Moscow, Russia	Well... I needed an EXACT match, not partial match. So my idea was to compare %B1 and the whole line to verify whether the match is exact or not. If not, it is skipped. To check it now i use "if (!$read(...))" -- as long as the match is exact, %B1 will be equal to the whole line, and $read will be empty. It even works But... Is there a simplier and a more correct way? For instance, a key param for $read to make it search only for exact matches would be great... Exact match... i mean that search for "Blah" should return only line "Blah", but not line "Blah the universe". Quote: Tidy Trax: To return the whole line you could substitute the s flag for the w flag and use Blah * as the text to search for. I can't do than 'cause i only know the whole line to search for and i need an EXACT match. -= endless in a victory of a yourself =-

Re: $read does NOT work, but $readn DOES #123660 26/06/05 12:54 PM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 4,230 D DaveC Hoopy frood
DaveC Hoopy frood D Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 4,230	Quote: To check it now i use "if (!$read(...))" -- as long as the match is exact, %B1 will be equal to the whole line, and $read will be empty. It even works That well think its found a match if it cant find a match as well searhing for "asldjkaslkdjaskldjasldjalsdjasdjakld" no match is fouind so $read has nothing in it I think this should work if (!$read(.....) && $readln) { .... matched ... } !$read well be true if not matched or exact match but $readln is the line number matched, if there isnt one then its zero so it fails

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