Another stupid question.. [Solved]

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Paul - Taiphoz

(Posted 2017) [#1]

I need to load a log file from outside the build dir.

something like this in sudocode

      myText = LoadFile("C:\Users\paulg\Documents\Logs.txt")
      Start=myText.Find("thing:")
      Result:String = myText[start,start+10]
      Print Result

is it even possible for monkey to read outside of the build directory on the installed system ?

I took a break from coding and now I have something I wana try I feel like iv forgotten everything I knew. :/

Paul - Taiphoz

(Posted 2017) [#2]

So I did this.

...
		Local file:=FileStream.Open( "C:\Users\paulg\Documents\EVE\logs\Chatlogs\Local_20170114_184945.txt","r" )
		If Not file Return
		Local text:String = CodeToString(file.ReadString("ascii"))
		file.Close
    
    Print text
    DrawText(text,1,30)
	End
	
End
....


Function CodeToString:String(_data:String)
  Local Value:String
    For Local index:Int = 0 To _data.Length
      If _data[index]=10
        Value+="~n"
      Else
        If _data[index]>31 And _data[index]<128
          Value+=String.FromChar(_data[index])
        Endif
      Endif 
    Next  
  Return Value
End Function

I would have thought that ReadString would have done the conversion but I guess its left to us.. is there a faster better way of doing this ? I'm not sure how long these log files I am parseing could be its possible some of them might be really long. that being said I only need access to about the first 10 lines of each file I parse.