Re: FLASH: Manipulating Text File

[Helen Triolo]

Tobie Kerridge wrote:

> 

> Hi, I'm importing a text file into a movie clip text field using "load

> variables". I want to then chop up the result using its

> delimiters/paragraphs and assign the various chunks as variables. Has anyone

> got an idea how this can be done? I'm hoping to set about 25 values and want

> to avoid calling 25 individual external files

> 


The other day, Branden posted the following code, which parses an input

string looking for instances of linefeeds, and rebuilds the string,

leaving the linefeeds out.  If your text field has data separated by a

blank line, you could do the same kind of parsing (looking for strings

of 10-13-10-13 to delimit the paragraph), and set the value of a new

variable (Set Variable "newvar"&i = currentstring) every time one is

found.  Branden's code (which needs a count initializer at the start

too):


Set Variable: "loadedVar" = 1

Loop While (count <=length(loadedVar))

      If (ord(substring(loadedVar, count,1)) <> 13)

            Set Variable: "finalVar" = finalVar&substring(loadedVar,

count,1)

      End If

      Set Variable: "count" = count+1

End Loop


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