a string with original formatting over more than 1 line?

nobbe · January 26, 2007

hi

is it possible to have something like "qq" as in perl in autoit??

example : a string over more than 1 line, keeping formatting and quotes intact?

comes handy if you like to use original text as string values..

$test=qq~
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body onload="start()"><div style="position:absolute; z-index:10; left:188px; top:0px;  height:60px;"><iframe  allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="ad/un/ads.php" width="468" height="60"></iframe></div><div style="position:absolute; background-color:#747273; left:0px; top:0px; width:100%; height:60px;">
~;

/dev/null · January 26, 2007

Not implemented. I asked the same questions some time ago. There is no interest to implement it.

Michel Claveau · January 27, 2007

Hi!

There is no interest to implement it.

Glup! I am VERY interesting by this implementation.

Litteral string multi-line is implemented in many languages (Python "triple-quot", Ruby, Perl, Object-PAL, etc.)

In use, it's very very very good/useful/funny/smart.

When this possibility will be implemented in AutoIt!, I use it more often.

kjactive · January 27, 2007

There is a solution though, make all into a variable, I offen do this when working with HTML hybrid coding...

$a = '$test=qq~'
$a = $a & '<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">'
$a = $a & '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">'
$a = $a & '</head>'
$a = $a & '<body onload="start()"><div style="position:absolute; z-index:10; left:188px; top:0px;  height:60px;"><iframe  '
$a = $a & 'allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" ' 
$a = $a & 'marginwidth="0"'
$a = $a & 'src="ad/un/ads.php" width="468" height="60"></iframe></div><div style="position:absolute; background-'
$a = $a & 'color:#747273; left:0px; top:0px; width:100%; height:60px;">'
$a = $a & '~;'

The variable wrap can be made automatically as a Do / Until loop

The HTML code is now $a variable ready to get fired, a walk around but works fine...

kjactive

Edited January 27, 2007 by kjactive

SmOke_N · January 27, 2007

There is a solution though, make all into a variable, I offen do this when working with HTML hybrid coding...

$a = '$test=qq~'
$a = $a & '<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">'
$a = $a & '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">'
$a = $a & '</head>'
$a = $a & '<body onload="start()"><div style="position:absolute; z-index:10; left:188px; top:0px;  height:60px;"><iframe  '
$a = $a & 'allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" ' 
$a = $a & 'marginwidth="0"'
$a = $a & 'src="ad/un/ads.php" width="468" height="60"></iframe></div><div style="position:absolute; background-'
$a = $a & 'color:#747273; left:0px; top:0px; width:100%; height:60px;">'
$a = $a & '~;'

The variable wrap can be made automatically as a Do / Until loop

The HTML code is now $a variable ready to get fired, a walk around but works fine...

kjactive

In my experience...

$a &= xxxoÝ÷ ØjË^®ØZ«¢+ØÀÌØíôÀÌØíµÀìáá

kjactive · January 27, 2007

In my experience...

$a &= xxxoÝ÷ ØjË^®ØZ«¢+ØÀÌØíôÀÌØíµÀìáá

True but the string gets to long for autoit3 to handle - it's a walk around...

I just discovered that this should function to...

Func ChangeHtmlCodeIntoVariable($HTML_code)
Return '$a = ' & StringReplace($HTML_code,@CRLF, @CRLF & '$a = $a & ')
EndFunc

Anyway in Theory it does...

kjactive

nobbe · January 27, 2007

hi

i found the only thing to get it to work is to read it char by char from a tempfile ..

reading all lines with filereadline doesnt work either, the string gets too long ...

$file = FileOpen(".\htm\temp.htm", 0) 
$test = "";
; Read in 1 character at a time until the EOF is reached
While 1
    $chars = FileRead($file, 1)
    If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop
    $test = $test & $chars

    ;    MsgBox(0, "Char read:", $chars)

WEnd
FileClose($file)

MsgBox(0, "test ", $test)

kjactive · January 27, 2007

found the only thing to get it to work is to read it char by char from a tempfile ..
reading all lines with filereadline doesnt work either, the string gets too long ...

There is no size limits to $allchars = FileRead(...,...) it's related to all the string functions etc....

What about like I do:

$ID = FileOpen(HTMLFile.htm,0)
$a = FileReadLine($ID)
While 1
      $line = FileReadLine($ID)
       If @error Then Exitloop
; do the string manipulation here to the variable $Line.....
 $a = $a & $Line
WEnd
FileClose($ID)
; The variable $a can now be toshed to a HTML component or to CWebpage.dll - what ever one wants

This function truely works but it's a walk around

kjactive

Edited January 27, 2007 by kjactive

Michel Claveau · January 27, 2007

Hi!

Compare these three source-code:

AutoIt:

$st=""
$st &= "ldest=[" & @CRLF
$st &= "'toto@toto.com'," & @CRLF
$st &= "'titi@toto.com'," & @CRLF
$st &= "'gros.minet@titi.com'" & @CRLF
$st &= "]" & @CRLF
$st &= "for d in ldest:" & @CRLF
$st &= "    mailfiles('meme@tutu.com'," & @CRLF
$st &= "              d," & @CRLF
$st &= "              []," & @CRLF
$st &= "              ""I'm sorry""," & @CRLF
$st &= "              ""Y're my favorite dest..."" " & @CRLF
$st &= "    )"

Perl:

$st=qq~
ldest=[
'toto@toto.com',
'titi@toto.com',
'gros.minet@titi.com'
]
for d in ldest:
    mailfiles('meme@tutu.com', 
              d, 
              [],
              "I'm sorry", 
              "Y're my favorite dest..."
    )
~;

Python:

sr="""
ldest=[
'toto@toto.com',
'titi@toto.com',
'gros.minet@titi.com'
]
for d in ldest:
    mailfiles('meme@tutu.com', 
              d, 
              [],
              "I'm sorry", 
              "Y're my favorite dest..."
    )
"""

And choose:

- the more unreadable?

- the more difficult to type?

AutoIt can evolve.

If AutoIt evolve, it will a good thing for humanity

nobbe · January 27, 2007

There is no size limits to $allchars = FileRead(...,...) it's related to all the string functions etc....

What about like I do:
$ID = FileOpen(HTMLFile.htm,0)
$a = FileReadLine($ID)
While 1
      $line = FileReadLine($ID)
       If @error Then Exitloop
; do the string manipulation here to the variable $Line.....
 $a = $a & $Line
WEnd
FileClose($ID)
; The variable $a can now be toshed to a HTML component or to CWebpage.dll - what ever one wants
This function truely works but it's a walk around

kjactive

hi

its true that the variable is not limited in length, but the function FileReadLine() fails on LONG lines . thats why i read the file char by char..

kjactive · January 28, 2007

hi
its true that the variable is not limited in length, but the function FileReadLine() fails on LONG lines . thats why i read the file char by char..

I never seen it and I used this function to manipulate a lot of HTML code, a line here is seldom longer than 4695 characters....

Limits:

MAX_LINESIZE 4095 characters - Maximum size for a line of script.

STRBUFFER 4095 characters - Size of a general string buffer.

CMDLINEPARAM_MAXLEN 4096 characters - Each parameter can be this many characters.

kjactive

Edited January 28, 2007 by kjactive

jvanegmond · February 16, 2007

I know this is dumb.. But it works anyway:

#cs
this is
a test string
split over multiple lines
#ce

$cookie = ScriptReadLines(2,4)
MsgBox(0, "", $cookie )

Func ScriptReadLines($sLineStart,$sLineEnd)
    If @Compiled Then 
        SetError(1)
        Return 0
    EndIf
    Local $sReturn
    $sScript = FileOpen(@ScriptFullPath,0)
    For $x = $sLineStart To $sLineEnd
        $sReturn &= FileReadLine($sScript,$x) & @CRLF
    Next
    FileClose($sScript)
    Return $sReturn
EndFunc

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