Text file help

[jaysonit]

I have made my program in 4 parts and 3 work great. i for the life of me can not get a text filter to work the way i need to. i am new to autoit. a week or so.

this is what i need.

file1.txt looks like this:

just lines of text and more text

blank space. ----- i know how to get rid of blank lines.

http://www.what ever.com1

blank space

text text and yet more text http://www.what ever.com2

what i need the out come to look lik.

file2.txt need to look like this.

http://www.what ever.com1

http://www.what ever.com2

at this time my program will do the rest i have mode it to do.

if any one cen help it would make life so easy. i have no code for this part as i have

not yet got any idea what to do. thanks for reading and helping if you can.

ps: i have looked at every post about text on this forum and none i have seen seam to do what i need.

[notta]

I have made my program in 4 parts and 3 work great. i for the life of me can not get a text filter to work the way i need to. i am new to autoit. a week or so.

this is what i need.

file1.txt looks like this:

just lines of text and more text

blank space. ----- i know how to get rid of blank lines.

http://www.what ever.com1

blank space

text text and yet more text http://www.what ever.com2

what i need the out come to look lik.

file2.txt need to look like this.

http://www.what ever.com1

http://www.what ever.com2

at this time my program will do the rest i have mode it to do.

if any one cen help it would make life so easy. i have no code for this part as i have

not yet got any idea what to do. thanks for reading and helping if you can.

ps: i have looked at every post about text on this forum and none i have seen seam to do what i need.

Look at this StringInStr in the autoit manual. Should do what you need.

[spudw2k]

You could use StringReplace() or you can Trim the string by using StringInstr to find the char position to trim from. If you have an example I can make some code to "filter" it and explain how.

Edited March 10, 2008 by spudw2k

[jaysonit]

You could use StringReplace() or you can Trim the string by using StringInstr to find the char position to trim from. If you have an example I can make some code to "filter" it and explain how.

ok the text is the file at start.

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i need it to look like this. (i did this by hand)

http://MadVlad.com

http://www.gotsafelist.com

http://www.gotsafelist.com/complaints_V2.php?id=richmac

i dont know if this wll help i am looking aswell so i can lurn but if you can help that would be great.

i will post the hole code when dont for others to use nd lurn from.

[spudw2k]

Sweet, no prob. Here's what I would do, providing the text files are small in size, like this one.

Description of process:

1st. Parse the file one line at a time and copy the entire line if that line contains the string "http://"

2nd. Parse the collected data, trim and filter

Actuall process:

1. Ask for text file as input.

2. Read text file to array and loop through array; parse lines that contain "http://"

3. Save parse as temp file

4. Read temp file to array and loop through array; trimming before and after web links and filtering.

5. Delete temp file and save output file.

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#include <File.au3>

$textfile = FileOpenDialog("Textfile",@WorkingDir,"Text File (*.txt)")

Dim $arrTextFile
Dim $output

If Not _FileReadToArray($textfile,$arrTextFile) Then
   MsgBox(4096,"Error", " Error reading text file.     error:" & @error)
   Exit
EndIf

For $x = 1 to $arrTextFile[0]  ;Loop through text file lines and parse for http://
    If StringInstr($arrTextFile[$x],"http://") Then
        $output = $output & $arrTextFile[$x] & @CRLF
    EndIf
Next
$arrTextFile = 0  ;Cleanup

msgbox(0,"So Far.",$output)  ;Debug to show you what I have at this point

$tempfile = @WorkingDir & "\temp.txt"
FileWrite($tempfile,$output)
$output = ""
_FileReadToArray($tempfile,$arrTextFile)
FileDelete($tempfile)

For $x = 1 to $arrTextFile[0]  ;Loop through text file lines and trim data before and after web links
    $start = StringInstr($arrTextFile[$x],"http://")
    If $start > 1 Then  ;Trim ahead of link
        $arrTextFile[$x] = StringRight($arrTextFile[$x],StringLen($arrTextFile[$x])-$start+1) 
    EndIf
    $end = StringInstr($arrTextFile[$x]," ")
    If $end > 0 Then  ;Trim behind link
        $arrTextFile[$x] = StringLeft($arrTextFile[$x],$end - 1) 
    EndIf
    If StringInstr($arrTextFile[$x],"login_v2") < 1 Then  ;Filter for "login_v2"
        $output = $output & $arrTextFile[$x] & @CRLF
    EndIf 
Next
$arrTextFile = 0  ;Cleanup

msgbox(0,"The Result.",$output)  ;Debug to show you what I have at this point

Do
    $file = FileSaveDialog("Save As",@WorkingDir,"Text File (*.txt)")
Until $file > ""
If StringLeft(StringRight($file,4),1) <> "." Then $file = $file & ".txt"
FileWrite($file,$output)
Exit

Edited March 11, 2008 by spudw2k

[weaponx]

Dim $infile = "test.txt"
Dim $outfile = "out.txt"

$data = FileRead($infile)

$array = StringRegExp($data, "(http://.+?)\s", 3)

$handle = FileOpen($outfile, 1)

For $X = 0 to Ubound($array) - 1
    FileWriteLine($handle,$array[$X])
    ConsoleWrite("[" & $X & "] = " & $array[$X] & @CRLF)
Next

[jaysonit]

Thank you all for the help. i have used the input i got from you to do what i needed.