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Reading from a file, and writing to a container - 3/26/2007 5:27:49 AM
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zokissima
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Hi all
Total n00b here, so if I may be forgiven any transgressions, I'd really appreciate any help I can get. I've just been muddling through, did a few searches, and found some useful stuff, but I just don't have the knowledge to put it all together.
Basically, I need to construct a script that will read the contents of one text file, and write the results into a container within a second text file. This is for the construction of an SMS mif file, which requires a certain format for it to be recognized in a scan.
Each of our register machies has an application identifier that is unique to that register, and is what is used in communications. When I give people host names, they just stare at me. So, basically, I have written a CMD program (if it can be called as such :p ) that extracts this id, and pumps it into a text file.
It is just a single line of information, ie ID=099
I need to read the contents of this text file into a variable, then output this variable into a totally new text file, but within a specific format.
For example, all mif files have a general layout of the following:
ATTRIBUTE
NAME = "blahblah"
ID = 1
TYPE = String(250)
VALUE = "ID=099" (notice, it is this that I need to create)
END ATTRIBUTE
I have muddled around a bit, and found a basic method to read this input (gathered from this very forum) :
Dim InputFile
Dim FSO, oFile
Dim strData
InputFile = "C:\IDtest.txt"
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFile = FSO.OpenTextFile(InputFile)
strData = oFile.ReadAll
oFile.Close
I also know how to print out lines, one by one.
I am just at a loss as to how to print out several pre-determined text strings, then populate the variable, print it, and then proceed with the rest of the pre-determined strings.
I hope that this is clear enough. I apologise for the lengthy post, but I'm just in a very tight deadline right now. I would greatly appreciate any assistance you guys/gals can offer :)
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RE: Reading from a file, and writing to a container - 3/26/2007 5:52:54 AM
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dm_4ever
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Well, that would be your best bet zokissima, the COM object ebgreen mentioned. I can't help with that though...never played with it.
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RE: Reading from a file, and writing to a container - 3/26/2007 6:33:37 AM
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ebgreen
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I have only used a portion of the object's functionality to create installation status mifs in the past. Here is some quick code:
Dim MIF:Set MIF=CreateObject("ISMIFCOM.InstallStatusMIF")
Dim message
'creating status MIF
If status = LCase("fail") Then
message="Failure Occured - Key value = " & strResult
status = 0
Else
message="Completed Successfully - Key value = " & strResult
status = 1
End If
MIF.Create "Status","Some Company Name","Some Installation Name","1.0","1033"," ",""& message&"", status
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