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Read Specific Lines from a Text File

To retrieve specific lines from a text file in AutoPlay Media Studio, 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:

-- Set the beginning and ending text line numbers

beginning_line = 4;

end_line = 10;

 

-- populate a table with the contents of a text file

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

 

-- Initialize variable strLinesOfText

strLinesOfText = "";

 

-- Set the current line number

line = beginning_line;

 

-- Loop through table until end condition is reached

while line < (end_line + 1) do

  -- Append data to variable strLengthOfText

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

   line = line + 1;

end

 

-- Output to user

Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph1", strLinesOfText);

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