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Topic: automatically fill spreadsheet with text from the file |
RingDingDing
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Views: 460
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:59 pm Subject: automatically fill spreadsheet with text from the file |
I'm playing a game where I am trying to come up with some sort of statistics of the fights I am involved in. I have a file with a heap of the following info repeated:
Amaza Priestess
Life: 684
Da ... |
Topic: Editing Copied text |
RingDingDing
Replies: 12
Views: 311
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:56 pm Subject: Editing Copied text |
Thanks for that tip Lexikos. I had achieved what I needed with a sloppy method (StringTrimLeft) to remove the offending first string, but I'm sure your code is much more professional
My code is ... |
Topic: Editing Copied text |
RingDingDing
Replies: 12
Views: 311
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:29 am Subject: Editing Copied text |
Really going good now, almost got it working perfect.
Just need one more thing sorting and I think I have it done.
When in battle, the Life: xxx / xxx string is displayed twice. Once for the ene ... |
Topic: Editing Copied text |
RingDingDing
Replies: 12
Views: 311
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:05 am Subject: Editing Copied text |
AWESOME!
Nearly there now....do you have any suggestions how to reduce the following string to just the first number, regardless of how many digits there are?
ie I want to extract the number 666 ... |
Topic: Editing Copied text |
RingDingDing
Replies: 12
Views: 311
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:45 am Subject: Editing Copied text |
| Can anyone see where I am going wrong with this? It might help my understanding of what I am doing. The idea is to grab the text from Google (or any other page), and strip out the string I am looking ... |
Topic: Editing Copied text |
RingDingDing
Replies: 12
Views: 311
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:27 am Subject: Editing Copied text |
This falls somewhere near what I want to do with my clipboard.
There is a string I want to extract from the clipboard, but it is in a different place most times. The string length is variable too, ... |
Topic: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
RingDingDing
Replies: 7
Views: 263
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:25 am Subject: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
Getting somewhere close, I can get the text off the website now...I just need to figure out how to get the numbers into a variable so I can do an action based upon what it says.
Run http:\\www.goog ... |
Topic: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
RingDingDing
Replies: 7
Views: 263
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:17 am Subject: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
Hmmm, when I actually tested it, the urldownload didn't work. Although I was logged in in Internet Explorer, the file it downloaded was the frontpage.
I might need to grab the actual text from the ... |
Topic: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
RingDingDing
Replies: 7
Views: 263
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:15 am Subject: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
Ok, I've got the web page downloading, the file is being read and stored as a string.
Now I need to grab a particular section of the string and store it as a variable.
ie
I need to get the nu ... |
Topic: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
RingDingDing
Replies: 7
Views: 263
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:01 am Subject: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
| Awesome....I'm actually doing what I want with FileRead so far, will that cause any problems do you think? |
Topic: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
RingDingDing
Replies: 7
Views: 263
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:00 am Subject: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
What about if the page is determined by the destination?
ie if it is a game which produces something different each time?
Would it in effect generate a double hit? |
Topic: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
RingDingDing
Replies: 7
Views: 263
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Forum: Ask for Help Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:38 am Subject: IF text = "whatever" THEN do something? |
I've been hunting around but I can't seem to find the answer.
I'm basically looking for a function to search the text on an internet explorer page, and if it finds it, do a particular function (ie ... |
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