open and read commands

[Laura Brody]

Quoting Mike Fedkiw <filepro at adelphia.net>:

> This helped. I can now read the first line from the text document.
>
> How do I get it to continue though the rest of the .txt document? It is only
> reading the first line.

   Because that is what you told it to do. You need to
put the readline() in a loop (see below).

> (txt) returns the text I am looking for and (x) seemed to be the length of
> (txt)

   That is what it is supposed to do.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laura Brody" <laura at hvcomputer.com>
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: open and read commands
>
>
>>
>>
>> You really want this:
>>
>> declare local handle(8,.0)
>> declare local txt
>>
>> aa="c:/jpgfile.wri"
>> handle = open(aa,"rt")  'notice that it is "rt" and not just r
>> if handle le "0"
>> then errorbox "Unable to open file:" < aa; exit
>> i = "160"  'how many characters will there be in a line and double it

rd_loop:

>> x = readline(handle,txt,i)
>> if x eq "o" 'EOF reached
    then goto done

>> 'otherwise, do whatever you want with the text in variable txt

     goto rd_loop  'go get yourself another line of text
done:
     x = close(handle)
     end
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Laura Brody
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