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[Akize]

I need my PC to do certain actions throughout the day and am writing a short scheduling program to do it.

I'm going about this problem by dumping the schedule into a txt file in this format:
day of week,time,task1
day of week,time,task2
etc.

Then I have the script loop every 15 seconds and if the day of week and time matches the current day of week and time, then I'll run the task.

However I'm used to PHP / C++ where I'll just the dump the information into arrays / matrices and accessing it that way, but arrays in AHK are messy. Outside of accessing and parsing the text file every 15 seconds, is there a more efficient method of data retention / access?

[PhiLho]

Well, you can use WinXP's task scheduler for that... Or some similar freeware.

Otherwise, you need to read it only once, don't you? Or just put the info in a continuation section, if you don't mind editing the script to change the data. You have to reload the script anyway, after changing data (or have some hotkey to re-read the text file).
Of course, in both case, you have to parse the info on every timer tick, but it should be fast enough to be transparent.

I wish to have true arrays / associative arrays too, I am working on a proposal toward this, but it won't be soon...
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

[tonne]

To avoid parsing the file each time use the

[PhiLho]

I believe the problem was less on accessing the data than on storing it efficiently in AHK.

Note that using AHK pseudo-arrays isn't that bad... For example, you can use day of week & time info as index, if properly formated.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

[tonne]

I just remembered this cron-clone: http://www.kalab.com/freeware/pycron/pycron.htm.

Cron is the name of the task scheduler on unix system and works on a configuration file.
The configuration are somewhat more advanced than Akazi´s example.
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[Akize]

Thanks for all the responses.

[PhiLho]