Reading Specific Lines from a Text File

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Reading Specific Lines from a Text File

Document ID: IR10025

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The information in this article applies to:

• AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Professional Edition

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SUMMARY

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DISCUSSION

To retrieve specific lines from a text file in AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0, use the ReadToTable action.

As an example, we will read the file C:\test.txt into a table variable, and output the lines 4 through 10 to a paragraph object:

Insert the following code into an event in your application:

beginning_line = 4;


end_line = 10;


tabText = TextFile.ReadToTable("c:\\test.txt");


strLinesOfText = "";  line = beginning_line;





while line < (end_line + 1) do


    strLinesOfText = strLinesOfText .. "\r\n" .. "Line " .. line .. ": " .. tabText[line] .. "\r\n";    line = line + 1;


end





Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph1", strLinesOfText);

MORE INFORMATION

For more information please see the following topics in the AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 help file:

• Program Reference | Actions | TextFile | TextFile.ReadToTable

KEYWORDS: AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0, Actions, Text, File, Table, String, Read

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Last reviewed: September 26, 2003
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