Looking for end of line index position in a string

[rcavour]

Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong here. I have a function that takes a line string created by fgets and the script passes this string to my function Process_Info(see below). I need to extract the string from a fixed index location to the end of the line. I am having problems getting the index number of the end of line character (in this case a line feed).

Thank you.

Example:
Part # = 123456 Rev. RA M
Compat Code = 0x00000001

In both cases above, the info returned from Process_Info fuction should be "123456 Rev. RA M" or "0x00000001"; depending on the line I pass down.

func Process_Info : string
param string strLine

integer nEolPos, nLength
string strInfo

strchr strLine 0x0a nEolPos ;Look for the eol
nLength = nEolPos - 15 + 1 ;Length of data

;extracts the string in specified length
substr strInfo strLine 15 nLength

return strInfo

endfunc

 

[knob]

If you are using the TEXT flag with the fopen command, then any carriage returns and linefeeds will be stripped from the string that you read from the text file.

http://www.aspectscripting.com

 

[rcavour]

You right. Once I started playing with the script I caught that the TEXT flag was stripping those characters. I was able to fix my fuction by using strlen instead of strchr and compensating for the 0-based index as such:

func Process_Info : string
param string strLine

integer nEolPos, nLength
string strInfo


strlen strLine nEolPos ; Look for the end of line position
nLength = nEolPos - 15 ; Length of data needed to be parsed
substr strInfo strLine 15 nLength ; extracts the string in specified length

return strInfo

endfunc

Thanks for the TEXT flag pointer! That was one of my problems.

 

[kodr]

Have you looked into using strright instead?

strright newString strLine 15

Where newString is will end up with your wanted data.
You'd have to adjust the # of characters returned based on which line you fed it.

 

[rcavour]

Yeah that worked too when adjusting the data length. Thank you for the hints!