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Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:43 pm
by montymay
Hello
It's been a while since a posted a help request because I suspended work on my project, but I'm back on it and could use any suggestions that would correct the following unexpected outcome.
The code below, written for a text field containing a list of topics, with listbehavior and locktext set to true, formerly worked but now the variable tText remains empty after running the code:
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put "D:/Documents/DB/guides/" into tFolder
put the selectedtext of me into tTopic
put url ("file:"&tFolder&tTopic&".txt") into tText
set the htmltext of fld "guide" to tText
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The path to the folder containing the text files with the file name being the selected line, is correct. I am running LC 9.6.1. Thank you for any suggestions.
Monty
Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:56 pm
by bogs
Which OS ?
Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:57 pm
by montymay
Sorry. Windows 10, latest update.
Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:59 pm
by bogs
I'll try an test it tomorrow (early morning, most likely) if someone don't beat me to it
Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:43 am
by jmburnod
Hi,
This syntax is strange for me
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put url ("file:"&tFolder&tTopic&".txt") into tText
What happend with that instead:
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put tFolder & tTopic & ".txt" into tFile
put url ("file:" & tFile) into tText
Best regards
Jean-Marc
Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:15 am
by liveme
Hi Monty,
This works for me !
- differences - I'm only looking for files in the same folder of my stack
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## Get the contents of the file
put URL ("file:" & tFileName) into tFileContents
## Display the file contents in the field
put tFileContents into field "Result"
as you see, very few " " " ... involved - this way is to run it on linux.
*also under windows : some path used symbol will depend if meant for a 32 bits platforms or 64 bits...
Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:54 am
by montymay
Hello
Thanks to those who replied. I hope I did not waste too much of your time. I found the problem: there is a hidden character at the beginning of each line of the list field. Modifying the script to delete it fixed the problem. I don't know what the character is or how it got there but will investigate. If there is a way of revealing the hidden character, it would be of interest to others, I think.
Monty
Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:14 am
by FourthWorld
What was the character?
Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:31 am
by bogs
FourthWorld wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:14 am
What was the character?
montymay wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:54 am
I don't know what the character is or how it got there but will investigate
montymay wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:54 am
I found the problem: there is a hidden character at the beginning of each line of the list field.
Sounds a lot like what I found in this
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Re: Putting a text file into variable with URL method not working
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 7:30 pm
by liveme
If there is a way of revealing the hidden character, it would be of interest to others, I think.
whatever character is "hidden" in some way, could be made "visible" when using a Textconversion LC feature;
So just by converting it to another format would show it as a string.
Using a "regex" filter, could also help to instantly remove undesired string wherever it is encountered !
..then you just need to save the "sanitized" string as you wish.
Text "converting" :
https://lessons.livecode.com/m/2592/l/1 ... cii-values
https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/UniDecode
https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/FormattedText
...and more
Regex use case :
https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/Filter
just an idea
