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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:

1. Insert the following code into an event in your application:

-- 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);