OMG lisbox making me crazy. Help please. Topic is solved

[AutohotkeyLover]

Hello,

I'm trying to update a listbox from a text file.
I read the text file then try to guicontrol the listbox. The problem is the carriage returns aren't being registered when populating the listbox. It's showing as one line in the listbox.

gui, 3:add, listbox, r20 w200 vattenlist
fileread, readallatten, %userprofile%\managertools\attendance\allatten.txt ;(this file is in a list format)
sort, readallatten, N R
guicontrol, 3:, attenlist, %readallatten%

Any help is appreciated? Probably something simple I'm overlooking.

[divanebaba]

Hi.
Maybe it is an encoding problem. Try to save allatten.txt in UTF-8 format.
The help says:

*t: Replaces any/all occurrences of carriage return & linefeed (`r`n) with linefeed (`n)

So try the *t parameter like:

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fileread, readallatten, *t %userprofile%\managertools\attendance\allatten.txt

[Xeo786]

List element/items have to be seprated with "|"

if aallatten.txt looks like following

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Item1
Item2
Item3
Item4
Item5
Item6
Item7
Item8
Item9

then this can be done via loop parse

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fileread, readallatten, %userprofile%\managertools\attendance\allatten.txt ;(this file is in a list format)
Loop, parse, readallatten, `n, `r
	readallatten_List := readallatten_List "|" A_LoopField

Gui add, listbox, r20 w200 vattenlist, %readallatten_List%
Gui Show
return

or
stringreplace

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fileread, readallatten, %userprofile%\managertools\attendance\allatten.txt ;(this file is in a list format)
StringReplace, readallatten_List, readallatten, `n, |, all

Gui add, listbox, r20 w200 vattenlist, %readallatten_List%
Gui Show

[AutohotkeyLover]

Thank you both! I ended up with the following

sort, readallatten, N R
Loop, parse, readallatten, `n, `r
readallatten_List := readallatten_List "|" A_LoopField

guicontrol, 3:, attenlist, %readallatten_List%