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[cr33p]

Ok, I'm trying my darndest to automate some of the terribly repetitive tasks I have here at work. One of them basically involves inputting a patient ID and following it with a number of keystrokes, then looping to the next ID.

Anyway, my existing script is at home on my thumb drive :\ It just utilizes FileReadLine and Send statements to go through each ID in a file.

SO! What I'd really like to be able to do is this:
read line from fileID.txt, ControlSend appropriate keystrokes
upon completion of each ID, append ID to fileIDComplete.txt, and remove ID from fileID.txt
loop until fileID.txt is empty

Wow I'm really not very good at vocalizing what I'm trying to do - did that make any sense?

Anyhow, thanks in advans, and I'll post my existing script as soon as I get home.

[Chris]

Here's a starting point:

[Guest]

Sweet, thanks for the reply - I'll start cookin.

And as far as removing the line from the initial file - it's more of a convenient failsafe for me. Sometimes, for random reasons, the system I log into just drops the connection, so I have to get logged in again and start over. Then I have to dig through the file of completed IDs and figure out where to start again on the initial list.

So either truncating the initial file, or doing some sort of file comparison to exclude IDs that are in BOTH files would be convenient. But certainly not necessary :]

[Guest]

And here's the way I'm doing it now, which was actually one of my very first AHK scripts:

[Chris]

Looks good. For slightly better file-writing performance, you can omit the last parameter from the following line. This is because output.txt is the Loop's output file so it is automatically kept open for writing:

FileAppend, %A_LoopReadLine%`n, output.txt