Forums Scripts & Popups reading of a multiline textfile

hi ladies
i got a question for ya, Multi-Plugin for iTunes exports the folowing code in a .txtfile

Now i want to make a mIRC script that reads from this file, using $read
But how-o-how can i set it up that way it not reads only the first line? and how do i split the file in variables then?
Thanks for reading, i hope you got an answer for meh

When using $read, you can specify which line you want to read by using $read(<filename>,<line_number>)
Using $read(<filename>) will read a random line from the file, not necessarily the first.
You can use $lines(<filename>) to return the total number of lines in the file.

If you want to read the whole file, you can use the /play command.

/help /play

What exactly are you trying to do with that data? Display it as a "now playing" ad in a channel?

exactly

i tried $read("C:\Program Files\iTunes\CurrentTrack.txt", 2)
and it gives no result :S
when i do:
$read("C:\Program Files\iTunes\CurrentTrack.txt", 1)
it says "P" and when i stop the song it says "S" (the first caracters of the first line, play or stop)
what am i doing wrong?

Try this in status window:
//echo -s > $read("C:\Program Files\iTunes\CurrentTrack.txt",nt,2) <

If that works, then you're doing something else wrong. Don't know what since you don't post that part of the script.
If it doesn't, the file doesn't look likt the example you gave above. Try
//play -es "C:\Program Files\iTunes\CurrentTrack.txt" 20
or
/run notepad "C:\Program Files\iTunes\CurrentTrack.txt"
to see the actual contents of the file. Maybe you start reading the file before it's completely written?

this is so strange :|
notepad shows exact the good contents but when i try the echo line it gives as output only > <
with the play option it generates the folowing output:

You can use COM to interact with iTunes, thus avoiding this entire issue, as you can use commands in mIRC to get this data from itunes.

I gave some code to retrieve info from iTunes and issue some commands to it in a thread on mircscripts.org here

Furthermore, a while ago, a friend of mine released a snippet which provides iTunes controls, which you can find here

To use either code, you need mIRC 6.16. Load it in your remotes, and you're good to go. Easy as pie.

tnx i gonna try that
lets see if it works better for me