Count in a line shows more characters than available

[sree161]

Hi

I am trying to read a line from a file. Post read i am counting the number of characters in the line by using StringLen.

The line is sc marks:1
Which is 10 letters but the string length is returning length as 14.
Can i know the reason behind it??

I wanted to pick the last number in the line.
Can i get any solutions to the problem i am facing???
                  

[SlackerAl]

Can I suggest you write a short sample code, illustrating this. I suspect that in the process of doing that you will find your problem:

Step one: set a $string = " sc marks:1", StringLen and msgbox the result. Then cut and paste the same string into a file and repeat.

Perhaps you have a special character or text encoding in your file? Even if you don't find your problem it makes it quick for us to see exactly what you have tried and its output.

[sree161]

1 hour ago, SlackerAl said:

Can I suggest you write a short sample code, illustrating this. I suspect that in the process of doing that you will find your problem:

Step one: set a $string = " sc marks:1", StringLen and msgbox the result. Then cut and paste the same string into a file and repeat.

Perhaps you have a special character or text encoding in your file? Even if you don't find your problem it makes it quick for us to see exactly what you have tried and its output.

Hi

i have tried this code
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <File.au3>
$File = @Dir \Text.txt
$Open = FileOpen($File, 0)
$Read = FileRead($Open)
MsgBox ($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "read:", $Read )
$len = StringLen($Read)
MsgBox ($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Length:", $len )

i have copied text to source file and then closed it by saving it.

 

Text file:

1 makers:1

Value returned is 14
total number of characters present are 10

[Melba23]

sree161,

Please post a copy of the file itself - my guess is that there are some additional EOLs within it.

M23

[Simpel]

Hi.

$File = @Dir \Text.txt

couldn't be correct. What exactly is the path to the file?

Do you mean:

$File = @ScriptDir & "\Text.txt"

Conrad

Edited August 31, 2017 by Simpel
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[nobbitry]

Hi,

$Read = FileRead($Open)

reads the whole text, not a single line. Is there another line?

You wrote 10 letters. Are there Whitespaces? StringLen counts them too.

$sString = "123 45 6789"
MsgBox(0,StringLen($sString), $sString)

 

[junkew]

Use this then you can easily see what is counted

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_StringToHex.htm

 

[junkew]

No problems on my system.
Suggestion to run below to see AutoIt works fine (be aware it creates  test.txt automatically overwriting any existing file)

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <File.au3>
#include <String.au3>

$File = @ScriptDir & "\Test.txt"

; Open the file for writing (append to the end of a file) and store the handle to a variable.
Local $hFileOpen = FileOpen($File,$FO_OVERWRITE + $FO_UTF8)
If $hFileOpen = -1 Then
   MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "An error occurred whilst writing the temporary file.")
   Return False
EndIf

filewrite($hFileOpen,"sc marks:1" )
fileclose($hFileOpen)

$Open = FileOpen($File, 0)
$Read = FileRead($Open)
consolewrite("read:" & $Read & @CRLF)
$len = StringLen($Read)
consolewrite("Length:" & $len & @CRLF )
$blen = binaryLen($Read)
consolewrite("Binary length:" & $blen & @CRLF )
$hexString=_stringtohex($read)
consolewrite("hex:" & $hexString & @CRLF )

 

[sree161]

Hi all,
I used a hotkey to paste data to my notepad due to which the pointer goes to next line after pasting.
Will this be the reason for the problem i am facing???

[sree161]

On 8/31/2017 at 8:42 PM, Simpel said:

Hi.

$File = @Dir \Text.txt

couldn't be correct. What exactly is the path to the file?

Do you mean:

$File = @ScriptDir & "\Text.txt"

Conrad

Sorry that was a typo..

[junkew]

4 hours ago, sree161 said:

Hi all,
I used a hotkey to paste data to my notepad due to which the pointer goes to next line after pasting.
Will this be the reason for the problem i am facing???

please try what i suggested in post #8.

Show your code for the hotkey (i assume for the moment its just ctrl+v)

Will this be the reason for the problem i am facing???

Most likely you indeed have special characters in your string like a Start of file (BOM),  Some messing up with unicode/ascii/.... characterset. But from what you describe its impossible to reveal your problem (you have to attach the file you read or test post#8). Each line can have a CRLF CRLF which is then 4 characters invisible to enduser.

[mikell]

Anyway whatever the number of eol white spaces a regular expression does the job 

$string = "  sc marks:1  " & @crlf & @crlf

$n = StringRegExp($string, '(\d+)\s*$', 1)
If not @error Then Msgbox(0,"", $n[0])