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Pulling info from a text file #2918 21/12/02 09:33 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 20 S ScottRoberts OP Ameglian cow
OP ScottRoberts Ameglian cow S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 20	I have a text file that has a list of items. The first word of each line is the item and the rest of the line is the description. I am trying to write a script that when a user types !item <item> it will go to this file, find the line with that item and respond with the description. How can I do this. I am fairly new at writing scrips and know that this is possible. At this time, the file has approx 600 items in it. and will grow to near 1000. Thanks for your help Scott Roberts T&R Communications of Florida sroberts@tnrcomm.com

Re: Pulling info from a text file #2919 21/12/02 09:40 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	Code: on :TEXT:!item:#:{ if ( $read(items.txt,s,$$2-) != $null ) { msg # $read(items.txt,s,$$2-) } } Replace items.txt with the name of your text file.

Re: Pulling info from a text file #2920 21/12/02 10:04 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 20 S ScottRoberts OP Ameglian cow
OP ScottRoberts Ameglian cow S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 20	That worked great...now to add one more thing...what if the ITEM is not found. How do I display a message saying that it was not found. Again. Thansk for the help. Scott Roberts T&R Communications of Florida sroberts@tnrcomm.com

Re: Pulling info from a text file #2921 21/12/02 10:06 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	Code: on :TEXT:!item:#:{ if ( $read(items.txt,s,$$2-) != $null ) { msg # $read(items.txt,s,$$2-) } else { msg # Item " $+ $$2- $+ " not found. } }

Re: Pulling info from a text file #2922 21/12/02 10:14 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 20 S ScottRoberts OP Ameglian cow
OP ScottRoberts Ameglian cow S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 20	Bless you...thanks for the quick help...task completed and script works great!!! Scott Roberts T&R Communications of Florida sroberts@tnrcomm.com

Re: Pulling info from a text file #2923 21/12/02 10:18 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,922 O Online Hoopy frood
Online Hoopy frood O Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,922	detail, since running $read() twice would be rather slow, I'd use $ifmatch where possible. Code: if ( $read(items.txt,s,$$2-) != $null ) { msg # $ifmatch }

Re: Pulling info from a text file #2924 25/12/02 05:01 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 99 M MDA Babel fish
MDA Babel fish M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 99	Greetings Collective and Members, How would I add a timer to this code to enable the reading of a sizeable text file back to a remote user via a whisper to them without flooding out the script in doing so? on :TEXT:!item:#:{ if ( $read(items.txt,s,$$2-) != $null ) { msg # $nick $ifmatch } else { msg # $nick Item " $+ $$2- $+ " not found. } } Thanks for your time and consideration, Regards, MDA

Re: Pulling info from a text file #2925 27/12/02 08:55 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 16 A amr Pikka bird
amr Pikka bird A Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 16	Code: on :TEXT:!item:#:{ if ( $read(items.txt,s,$$2-) != $null ) { msg $nick $ifmatch } else { msg $nick Item " $+ $$2- $+ " not found. } } no idea however on the timer..sorry Last edited by amr; 27/12/02 09:00 PM.

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