Parsing

[ayejes]

What I need to do is to be able to parse a sentence(using the spaces for the delimiter) from a text file. I need to be able to count each word and save that result for creating a specific number of objects. I also want to be able blit a specific word from the sentence to the center of one of the objects.

I have been looking at the tokens object example but it just seems to be not fully clicking in my mind.

I also would like to be able to have multiple sentences in one text file and be able to pick which sentence to have parsed. This would be better I think than having multiple text files for just one sentence.

If someone could submit an explanation or upload a little example I would much appreciate it.


Thanks

[Tiles]

To the File Archive, Tokens Object Example

Hope that helps

[James]

You could also try my String Tokenizer object. It allows for 2D tokenization, so you could set one delimiter to " " and the other to a newline.

[ayejes]

How do I load the text file? In the color list object, there is a load list file, but I am just not seeing how to load a text file for the tokens object example. So anyone who could just show me the click code to load a text file I would much appreciate it. Also once loaded how do I access the file for parsing. In the tokens object the source file is in a strings object. So how would I input the text file into a click code to be viewed and parsed.

I apologize if this seems like a real newbie question. I really do like mmf over trying to code everything in c, but as it was there was some things in c that was ruff for me and every now and then my mind gets stuck in an endless loop of trying to see how to write code in c rather than mmf.

Thanks for the help

[Tiles]

How do I load the text file? In the color list object, there is a load list file, but I am just not seeing how to load a text file for the tokens object example.

You don't load a text file into the Tokens Object. You tell the Tokens Object in the expression which text to parse. The text can be in a string, an RTF Object, or any other text related object.

Normally when you have a large text loaded to an let's say RTF Object, you will isolate parts of it into a string. And then go on with the content of this string.That's why i have the string in my example.

Do a test, modify the string in my example. The result will change by this.