edwinyn
23rd October 2003 07:45 UTC

Getting line number for spesific string from text file
I have to replace a string from a text file, but I have to know its line number. How can I do that?

kichik
23rd October 2003 11:36 UTC

There are lots of functions in the Archive that help you do that. Try this one for example:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/...ances=0,11,311

Afrow UK
23rd October 2003 19:24 UTC

This function will find a string in a file and tell you what line it is on:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/...15&instances=0

You can then use this script to actually replace the text on that line:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/...48&instances=0

The last one I wrote for the sake of this (was bored too).

-Stu

deguix
23rd October 2003 21:37 UTC

I have a suggestion:

Have the command FileReadByte, right? It returs a number 1-255 as the character in ANSII. Maybe adding a option to don't convert the character to a number, (meaning as it is). I can use the FileRead, but it doesn't return the Enter key characters.

kichik
24th October 2003 14:20 UTC

FileRead does return \n and \r. You can use FileRead's maxlen parameter to make it act like FileReadByte, only without the conversion to a number.

deguix
24th October 2003 21:14 UTC

Thanks! I will try it.