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Hi,

I've read a file into a variable (CurrentFile), and am using a parsing loop to process each line of the file. As part of the processing, I want to append the next line from CurrentFile to the current line, without using Continue to jump back to the top of the parsing loop.

I want the next iteration of the parsing loop to start on the line after the one I appended.

I haven't found any way to get the current position of the parsing loop, so I don't know how to tell it to get the next line and append it to the current line. Is there an easy way to do this inside a parsing loop?

Thanks,
John B.

maybe

Hi wOxxOm,

That's what I originally considered, but it has to be done without using "Continue".

Is there any way to access and increment the index/pointer in a parsing loop? If not, then maybe reading the lines into an AHK pseudo-array is the answer?

Thanks,
John B.

no, there isn't. What's wrong with continue?

x0xx0m wrote:


The test for needing to append the next line comes in the middle of the processing (as shown in the original post).

1. After appending the next line, I want to keep processing the combined line down to the end of the loop. There are a number of steps after the append.

2. I don't want to process the combined line with the part of the loop above the text step where I append the next line. If I use a continue, the processing jumps back to the beginning of the loop.

Thanks,
John B.

just add 'else' part with parentheses

So it would look like this?



I think this would work if I had only one instance of needing to join lines, but there are multiple instances, and in each case, I'd have to add another if condition for bjoin1, bjoin2, bjoin3, bjoin4.... It rapidly gets unmanageable. So again, I'm looking for a method that doesn't use "continue".

Thanks,
John B.

just a thought, but have you considered using [StringSplit] on your input file and having a normal [loop] iterate through the array elements ?

With that method, you'd have more control over which element gets accessed next.

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Hi [VxE],

Yes, I thought about using an array for just that reason, although I was going to use a loop to build the array. If I go with the array, your suggestion of using StringSplit to create the array seems the easiest way.

Thanks,
John B.

a stringsplit and a loop of the stringsplit results is the same as a loop, parse.

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Hi engunneer,

You wrote:


The difference, I'm hoping, is that a stringsplit results in an "array", which would allow me to address individual lines (so I can append the next line to the current line and increment the array index without using "continue"). If I use loop, parse, I haven't found any way to append the next line to the current line without iterating through the loop again.

Right?

Thanks,
John B.

you are correct. I didn't read closely enough

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