File Parsing

I have a simple text file like this:

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Will you rap on the door?
357
Will you pull the cord?
275
or creep around the house to investigate the light?
289
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How do I parse the file so the text is displayed on screen while the numbers are held as a value so that when the user clicks on an option I can return the number for that option?

Basically, user clicks an option, program knows the number (under each option) for that option?

I don't need to know how to display the text, just how to load the text into 3 sets of alterable strings and the numbers into alterable values.

I'm trying to use the String Parser object (with RETURN/ENTER as the delimiter) but I'm not sure how to get a particular string / number from a file. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. :)

Any chance you can add a delimiter to the text file?

Maybe a |

Sure would make it a lot easier then trying to get a return code to be the delimited .. not even sure you could do that.

I often use the @ symbol as it's big an chunky and easy to see. Of course you can't use it when email addresses are used.

How? (I haven't messed with file / string parsing) Would I just add a | to the end of each line?

Add a symbol of your choice when you want to break up the text. So in your case, at the end of each line.

Load the text into the String Parser object. At the start of the frame, use the List Tokenizing > Delimiters > Add Delimiter option on the String Parser and add the symbol you chose.

You can now use List Tokenizing > Get Element to get a specific line of the text. The first line will be number 1.

Hope this helps!

Thank you Nick! That helped a lot. :)

No problem! Just remember the string parser object, you woundn't believe some of the time it can be used to make life a little easier!

You could also just use the get line object, which will get a line from a text file. So if you have the text file already set up you can (for example) have line 4 be the text line, and line 5 be the value.

Hmm, that does seem a bit easier, thanks to both of you.

Could the special character just be end-of-line or carriage return?

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Originally Posted by droberson

Could the special character just be end-of-line or carriage return?

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I'm glad you brought that up as i have wondered about this also. But i'm lost as to what the 'end of line' character is!

Newline$?

Oh! I didn't realise that would also work as a comparison! Thanks!