TEXT FILE STRING HANDLING

[IncredibleVolk]

I can't understand why this doesn't work and I was hoping someone can help me. I want to exclude certain lines from a text file based on conditions. This is giving me a result when I print out the msgbox but the file I'm writing to is coming up empty. Basically I want to keep everything where the line is at least 45 characters but I want to exclude lines where a certain position in the string contains information.

if Len(strCurrentLine) > 45 and len(Mid(strCurrentLine, 36, 6)) = 0 then
objFilesTarget.WriteLine strCurrentLine

 

[PHV]

Like this ?
If Len(strCurrentLine) > 45 And Trim(Mid(strCurrentLine, 36, 6)) = "" Then

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[IncredibleVolk]

Thank You PHV. That worked great. Now I have another problem. Does it allow for an "OR" correlation? I was removing another line that started to the far left using this:

strcomp(left(strCurrentLine,1)," ") = 0

Is there a way that could be added to this?

If Len(strCurrentLine) > 45 And Trim(Mid(strCurrentLine, 36, 6)) = "" Then

 

[mrmovie]

you can have as many And's and Or's as you see fit.
just do the old maths thing and put () round them for your sake and for precedence.