problems parsing text file...

[Martin_SBT]

Guys

geezzz i cant get that simple thing to work!!

I got a text file and i want to extract specific information from it. I tried couple of different approach (texte file to table then table to string then string.find action.... and so on) but cant get that to work. Below is pasted a sample of the text file. What i want to do is each time i find a line that contains "LoginName = {" then i went to extract the line next to that one (ex: _vs = "ECON-APOGEEHALL\\SIEMENS\000") up to the end of the file. the goal will be to take all the extracted lines to populate a listbox. But if you can help me out with the first part of extracting the needed lines, i should be fine for the rest!

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

sample text file starts here:
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%scopeNames = {
}
Origin = 1
FirstGraphicName = {
_vs = "H-HALL.DYN.HALL\000"
}
Initials = {
_vs = "srd\000"
}
Language = 1033
LoginName = {
_vs = "PHYSICAL_******\\srdube\000"
}
OperatorName = {
_vs = "Steve Ranger Dub\351\000"
}
Preference = 1
m_schedulerAccessSlidingWindow = 0
m_usePreferredAccessGroups = 0
m_supervisor = 0
FunctionalAccess = {
[0] {
DataType = 1
Level = 3
}
[1] {
DataType = 2
Level = 1
}
[2] {
DataType = 20
Level = 1
}
[3] {
DataType = 3
Level = 2
}
[4] {
DataType = 21
Level = 1
}
[5] {
DataType = 17
Level = 1
}
[6] {
DataType = 5
Level = 1
}
[7] {
DataType = 11
Level = 1
}
[8] {
DataType = 14
Level = 2
}
[9] {
DataType = 4
Level = 1
}
[10] {
DataType = 7
Level = 1
}
[11] {
DataType = 6
Level = 1
}
[12] {
DataType = 23
Level = 1
}
[13] {
DataType = 8
Level = 1
}
[14] {
DataType = 9
Level = 1
}
[15] {
DataType = 18
Level = 1
}
[16] {
DataType = 16
Level = 1
}
[17] {
DataType = 12
Level = 1
}
[18] {
DataType = 10
Level = 1
}
}
bi-assoc INSIGHT_ACCESS_CONFIGURE = {
#37-4-1-9
#37-4-1-11
}
}

#37-3-2-37 = {
%class = "*/ATOMInsightAccount%1"
%versioningMode = oocNoVers
%scopeNames = {
}
Origin = 1
FirstGraphicName = {
_vs = "H-HALL.DYN.HALL\000"
}
Initials = {
_vs = "SBTT\000"
}
Language = 1033
LoginName = {
_vs = "ECON-APOGEEHALL\\SIEMENS\000"
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[Stefan_M]

A little help

Stefan

[Martin_SBT]

Stefan

I dont know what to say man!

Thank you so much! the scripting language seem lot easier for you than it is for me. Hope i will be as confortable as you and others are with it. I will try to read your code and catch the trick! i tried it and it works like a champ but i want to learn! eh eh.

Hope i will be able to return you the favor one day!


Thanks a zillion times

Martin

[Stefan_M]

Remarks

-- set File to parse
ParseFile="Siemens.txt"
-- set folder that holds the file to parse
ParseFolder=_SourceFolder.."\\Autoplay\\Docs\\"
-- text to search for
ParseText="LoginName"


-- read file into table
ParseTable = TextFile.ReadToTable(ParseFolder..ParseFile);
-- get the the total number of items in the table.
TableLines = Table.Count(ParseTable);

-- run through all table items
for count = 1, TableLines do
-- search for "ParseText" in ervery line of hte Table
if (String.Find(ParseTable[count], ParseText, 1, false))~=(-1) then
-- if the the string is found -> decrement counter "count" to go to the next line of the table
count=count+1;
-- this line holds the string you want
-- add the tableline to the listbox
result = ListBox.AddItem("ListBox1", ParseTable[count], "");
end
end

Hope it helps to understand
Stefan