Simple string question 1

[pragmatic]

This is probably really simple, but here's my question anyway.

I've got a tab delimited text file with three columns of data (3 letters,2 numbers,3 numbers)

I'm trying to read these in to 3 strings, then output (in a dialog box) the combined strings.

I'm getting an "Error 5: Invalid Identifier" message as soon as I run this.

Thanks.

string strOutput

proc main

string sLine

string sTemp1, sTemp2, sTemp3


if isfile "C:\test.txt"

fopen 0 "test.txt" READ TEXT ;Open our data file
while not feof 0 ;While the file still has data
fgets 0 sLine ;Read a line of data
strtok sTemp1 sLine "`t" 1 ;Get the first field
strtok sTemp2 sLine "`t" 1 ;Get the second field
strtok sTemp3 sLine "`t" 1 ;Get the third field

strcat sTemp1 " "
strcat sTemp2 " "

strinsert strOutput sTemp1 0
strinsert strOutput sTemp2 0
strinsert strOutput sTemp3 0

call test


endwhile
fclose 0


endif

endproc

proc test

dialogbox 0 8 20 264 169 2 "Caption"

pushbutton 1 45 80 164 35 "Okay" cancel

text 2 16 5 232 59 strOutput left

enddialog

endproc

 

[knob]

I imagine this is because you are doing an isfile on C:\test.txt but opening test.txt, which will default to the ASPECT directory.


aspect@aspectscripting.com

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[pragmatic]

Arrrgg! Thanks for the help. That was the problem. I knew it had to be something simple, I just couldn't see it.

 

[knob]

One thing I like to do is replace fopen calls with if fopen ..., then have an else clause that fires if the file could not be opened that pops up a usermsg box with an error message.


aspect@aspectscripting.com

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[pragmatic]

I will do that thanks, this is my first attempt to use Aspect as the engine behind my programing. Up till now I used vb to build the basic (aspect) scripts for me. The more I use Aspect, the more uses I'm finding.