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Hi,

I posted a question over in Ask for Help, but it's led me to make a suggestion as well. The problem I encountered is that the Filepattern in a file loop can match a string anywhere in the file ...

Hi Mustang,

Interesting validation. I'll bet I could use RegExMatch to be more exclusive, since I'd want to exclude all file extensions that don't exactly match .hhc.
This appears to work:
Loop, ...

Hi,

I mis-stated one thing about the file names. Try this:

Create two files in a directory:
a.hhc
a.hhc_backup

In the same directory, create this AHK script:

Loop, *.hhc, , 0
{
...

Hi,

I'm performing some operations on a file in a directory. I know the file extension of the file (*.hhc), but not the full file name. The only way I could think of to get the file name is to use ...

Hi engunneer,

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

The difference, I'm hoping, is that a stringsplit results in an "array", whi ...

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 ...

So it would look like this?

bjoin = false
Loop, parse, CurrentFile, `n
{
If bjoin = false
{
step 1
step 2
...
step n ; test for need to join
If ...

x0xx0m wrote:
no, there isn't. What's wrong with continue?

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 ...

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, th ...

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 c ...

OK, I can live with that Very Happy

Thanks,
John B.

Hi,

This has probably been answered before, but running a search on "Find text in file" returns 35 pages of results. So...

Is there a straightforward way in AHK to search a file for a ...

It's a little out of date, but see:
AHK version 1.0.45.01 help file:
http://www.autohotkey.net/~JohnB/autohotkey.pdf

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13809

Thanks,
John B.

From what I can tell, none of the free editors handle regular expressions in search/replace very well.

* sigh*

Maybe this Emerald Editor will do better. Apparently multi-line search and replace ...

Helps!

I see - functions seem to be global to the script, and can't be restricted in a hotkey block.

Thanks,
John B.