Reading TXT File Line by Line and putting in a TXTBOX

[Hodahel]

Hi,

I'm new here and just started playing with AutoIt..

By reading some tut, I was able to create a simple script to open a particular website.

Now my problem is how to:

1. Open a save txt file with my data in it..like this:

Name

Family Name

Email Address

and put it in a textbox/data field of IE?

Also how to put may text on datafield by using a known MARKER like

blahbla@MYTEXT_HERE

@ is the marker..

TIA

[Relive]

You would need these functions:

FileOpen()

FileReadtoArray() (or something similar)

Using some string expressions, determine what exp. is for name, etc. and place these values into the right fields

Use another string expression for @

[water]

I wouldn't read files line by line (except the very large ones) but use - as has been suggested - _FileReadToArray for performance reasons.

[Hodahel]

I want to read 1 line, then put in an input field of IE., then click OK button..

[water]

For the IE part I suggest to use the IE UDF that comes with AutoIt.

What have you coded so far?

[Hodahel]

For the IE part I suggest to use the IE UDF that comes with AutoIt.

What have you coded so far?

This is my code to find the input field and fill in the data and press login button..

#include <IE.au3>

Call("domain")

Func domain()

Global $oIE = _IECreate("http://www.mypage.org",0,1,1) ; page to open

Local $oUsername = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "Username")
Local $oPassword = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "Password")
Local $oButton = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "btnLogin")

_IEFormElementSetValue($oUsername, "user")
_IEFormElementSetValue($oPassword, "user")
_IEAction($oButton, "click")

_IEQuit($oIE) ;close the Internet Explorer

EndFunc ;==>login

I want to remove this part:

_IEFormElementSetValue($oUsername, "user")
_IEFormElementSetValue($oPassword, "user")

and read it directly from text file named, data.txt

BR

Edited March 5, 2013 by Hodahel

[water]

Use FileReadLine to read a line to a variable and then pass this variable to _IEFormElementSetValue.

[JohnQSmith]

Rules violation. Auto-log-in is not allowed. See rules link in bottom right corner of page.

#include <IE.au3>

Call("domain")

Func domain()

Global $oIE = _IECreate("http://www.mypage.org",0,1,1) ; page to open

Local $oUsername = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "Username")
Local $oPassword = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "Password")
Local $oButton = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "btnLogin")

_IEFormElementSetValue($oUsername, "user")
_IEFormElementSetValue($oPassword, "user")
_IEAction($oButton, "click")

_IEQuit($oIE) ;close the Internet Explorer

EndFunc ;==>login

edit: pointed to rules link Edited March 5, 2013 by JohnQSmith

[Melba23]

JohnQSmith,

The rules speak of "log-in and security dialogs" - as this deals with a normal page there is no problem.

M23

[Hodahel]

Rules violation. Auto-log-in is not allowed. See rules link in bottom right corner of page.

edit: pointed to rules link

With due respect sir..

Bypassing of security measures - log-in and security dialogs.....

I don't see any "BYPASS of security" if I login with all my credentials? Not unless if you consider NOT TYPING the login name as Bypassing of security..

[Melba23]

Hodahel,

See my post above - there is no problem with this question.

M23

[Hodahel]

Use FileReadLine to read a line to a variable and then pass this variable to _IEFormElementSetValue.

I'll try to work with this..

BR

[Hodahel]

Hi,

I already tried this code on AutoIt Example..

Local $file = FileOpen("test.txt", 0)
If $file = -1 Then
MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")
Exit
EndIf

; Read in lines of text until the EOF is reached
While 1
Local $line = FileReadLine($file)
If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop
MsgBox(0,"Line read:", $line)
WEnd

FileClose($file)

And I created a form in Koda

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=c:\users\user\documents\hunt.kxf
$Form1_1 = GUICreate("Form1", 300, 241, 407, 256)
$Input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 72, 16, 209, 21)
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("TextBox1", 24, 16, 49, 17)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Start", 88, 112, 113, 41)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###
While 1
$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
Switch $nMsg
Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
Exit
EndSwitch
WEnd

All I want is when I click the start button, the first line of the text file will be displayed on the textbox of the form..Can somebody help me to do it?

TIA

[Melba23]

Hodahel,

I would read the file like this:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <File.au3>

; Read the file into an array
Global $aLines
_FileReadToArray("Test.txt", $aLines)

; Create the GUI
$Form1_1 = GUICreate("Form1", 300, 241, 407, 256)
$Input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 72, 16, 209, 21)
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("TextBox1", 24, 16, 49, 17)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Start", 88, 112, 113, 41)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

; This is the line number we are going to read
$iCount = 0

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $Button1
            ; Increase the line number by 1
            $iCount += 1
            ; Check we are not past the end of the file
            If $iCount > $aLines[0] Then
                ; We were
                GUICtrlSetData($Input1, "End Of File")
            Else
                ; Write the next line into the input
                GUICtrlSetData($Input1, $aLines[$iCount])
            EndIf
    EndSwitch
WEnd

All clear?

M23

[BrewManNH]

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
GUICreate("Form1", 300, 241, 407, 256)
Global $Input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 72, 16, 209, 21)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("TextBox1", 24, 16, 49, 17)
Global $Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Start", 88, 112, 113, 41)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $Button1
            Local $file = FileOpen("test.txt")
            If $file = -1 Then
                MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")
                Exit
            EndIf
            GUICtrlSetData($Input1, FileReadLine($file)) ; reads only the first line of the file
            FileClose($file)
    EndSwitch
WEnd

[Hodahel]

Melba23,

BrewManNH

Thank you so much to both of you! I'll study both examples..

Maybe I'm too old for this...

Edited March 20, 2013 by Hodahel

[Hodahel]

This is my progress now..

#include <IE.au3>
#Include <Constants.au3>
#include <File.au3>


Local $file = FileOpen("address.txt", 0)

; Check if file opened for reading OK
If $file = -1 Then
MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")
Exit
EndIf

; Read in lines of text until the EOF is reached
;While 1
Local $line = FileReadLine($file)
If @error = -1 Then Exit
;MsgBox(0, "Line read:", $line)
;WEnd

Call("address")

Func address()

Global $oIE =_IECreate("http://"& $line &",0,1,1,1) ; page to open

_IEQuit($oIE) ;close the Internet Explorer

EndFunc ;==>address

FileClose($file)

I have a texe file named ADDRESS.TXT which list website address like this:

www.yahoo.com

www.google.com

www.msn.com

I want it to put it in IE address bar like this

Global $oIE =_IECreate("http://"& $line &",0,1,1,1)

until all the line is finished..

With that code above it only insert the first line of the text file...

Edited March 30, 2013 by Hodahel

[kylomas]

Hodahel,

See comments in code...

#include <IE.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#include <array.au3>
#include <file.au3>
Local $file = FileOpen(@scriptdir & "\address.txt", 0) ; <---------  file is in same dir as script
; Check if file opened for reading OK
If $file = -1 Then
 MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")
 Exit
EndIf
; Read file to array
local $aLines
_FileReadToArray(@scriptdir & "\address.txt", $aLines)
;Call("address")  ; <---------------------  invoke functions directly, not with call
address()   ; <---------------------  like this
Func address()
 for $1 = 1 to $aLines[0]
  if $aLines[$1] = '' then continueloop
  local  $oIE = _IECreate($aLines[$1],0,1,1,1) ; page to open
  if @error <> 0 then ConsoleWrite('Error code = ' & @error & @LF)
  ;_IEQuit($oIE) ;close the Internet Explorer
 next
EndFunc   ;==>address
FileClose($file)

kylomas

[water]

Maybe I'm too old for this...

Too old to AutoIt, too young to die

[kylomas]

Too old to AutoIt, too young to die

So much code...so little time...