Unterminated string - possible to solve?

[legend]

Hi. Let's say I have 5000 characters in 1 line, then i get this error "Unterminated string"

It seems autoit can't handle that, is it by any way possible to make it able to handle it?

I now I can just make a new line, but in this case I want to have 5000 characters in 1 line

[Jos]

Show us the code you are having issues with.

[FireFox]

Hi,

You have to split your data to X chars, I don't remember how much.

Global $sData = "blabla..." & _ ;split here
"blabla" ;continue here at the next line

Edit : After checking it's 4094 chars max per line.

Br, FireFox.

Edited October 20, 2012 by FireFox

[legend]

here's my script, it converts to hex. (1400) defines how many characters per line it should be. So if there's too many lines, it can't handle it, and if there's too many characters in a line, it also can't handle it.

$file = FileOpenDialog('Open the the file', @ScriptDir, 'script (*.exe)', 1)
$file2 = FileSaveDialog('Save the file Autoit script', @ScriptDir, 'script (*.au3)')

_CheckExt($file2, 'au3')
$hfile = FileOpen($file, 16)
$hfile2 = FileOpen($file2, 2)
FileWrite($hfile2, 'Global $sModule = "0x"' & "& _" & @CRLF)
While 1
$data = FileRead($hfile, 1400); how many chars we read at the time $data = FileRead($hfile)will read whole file
If @error Then ExitLoop
FileWrite($hfile2, '"' & StringTrimLeft($data,2) & '" & _' & @CRLF)
WEnd
MsgBox(0, 'Done!!', 'completed')
Func _CheckExt(ByRef $s_file, $s_ext)
If StringRight($s_file, StringLen($s_ext)) <> $s_ext Then $s_file &= '.' & $s_ext
EndFunc ;==>_CheckExt
Func _CheckCapital(ByRef $s_file, $s_cap)
If StringLeft($s_file, StringLen($s_cap)) <> $s_cap Then $s_file = $s_cap & $s_file
EndFunc ;==>_CheckExt?oÝ?÷
FileWriteLine($hfile2, "''")

I want it so, even you set it to 5000, then it can handle it, but i'm not sure it's actually possible

Edited October 20, 2012 by legend

[FireFox]

if there's too many lines, it can't handle it

I think by splitting the lines too it works :

Global $sData = "blabla..." & _
"blabla"
$sData &= "blabla" ;continue here

Just check how many lines until the error.

Br, FireFox.

Edited October 20, 2012 by FireFox

[Jos]

Looks like you always finish the last line with an _ at the end which obviously will trigger the error.

maybe something like this works:

While 1
    $data = FileRead($hfile, 1400); how many chars we read at the time $data = FileRead($hfile)will read whole file
    If @error Then ExitLoop
    FileWrite($hfile2, '"' & StringTrimLeft($data, 2) & '" & _' & @CRLF)
WEnd
FileWrite($hfile2, '""')

Jos

[legend]

the thing is, autoit supports up to 4094 chars per line, but I want to exceed that number, so I can use example: 20000 chars per line. so i tried to set the number down, from 2000 to 50 chars per line, but then instead of the error: unterminated string, I get the error: yacc stack overflow, because now there's too many lines for autoit to handle. Edited October 20, 2012 by legend

[Jos]

the thing is, autoit supports up to 4094 chars per line, but I want to exceed that number, so I can use example: 20000 chars per line. so i tried to set the number down, from 2000 to 50 chars per line, but then instead of the error: unterminated string, I get the error: yacc stack overflow, because now there's too many lines for autoit to handle.

Do you really think this is the best approach for including data for your program?

Why not simply FileInstall() the data?

Anyway, you can also opt for not running au3check, but you will still have to fix your code to ensure it runs with autoit3.

[BrewManNH]

If you need a very long string, longer than 4094 characters, you need to split it so that AutoIt won't complain.

; this is pseudo code, probably won't run when I'm done with it

$String = "abcdefg...." ; up to the line limit of 4094 characters
$String &= "a1b1c1d1e1f1g1..."; up to the line limit of 4094 characters
; you now have a string twice as long as the line limit that autoit can handle, yet it is still one long string.

[Chance]

error: yacc stack overflow, because now there's too many lines for autoit to handle.

I gotten this before when including some picture as a string. never figured it out until I saw that someone said that you have to break it down into variables the way firefox just showed you apparantly.

[legend]

then i would have around maybe 100000 variables

thx for you help

Edited October 20, 2012 by legend

[BrewManNH]

then i would have around maybe 100000 variables

thx for you help

What's that in reference to? Because the techniques that FireFox posted and the one I posted after his (missed his originally) doesn't use more than one variable to hold a string of any length up to what you computer's memory can handle.

[caleb41610]

then i would have around maybe 100000 variables

thx for you help

You won't be using any more variables than you already are.