Extracting text to a list box

[pirodaggar]

Hi guys, I'm trying to make a program that'll extract a bunch of info from a pasted page (to automate the data entering process, basically).

I can pull static values fine from an edit box fine with string parser, but as soon as it comes to information that moves direction and whos values change from 2 to 3 digits, the task becomes nearly impossible (unless you can search for the enter "character", which i don't think you can.

My next best plan is to then take what was in this multi-line text box and put it into a list (with each line break being a new line in the list box) but I can't figure out how to do this either.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

[pirodaggar]

Nobody has any ideas? There has to be some way to do this...

[DT]

can you provide an example?

[mmf2]

look:
http://updo.vicp.cc/ToolsMmf2/Extracting-text-to-a-list-box.mfa.zip

[pirodaggar]

looking into to mmf2, it's hard because it's in another language but I'll get it eventually.

Basically DT my goal is this: you pull up a stat sheet from a website, where things are jumbled around, like it might be

"metal bat: 414
shopping cart: 18
movie rental: 418"

And I need to pull those numbers out, then multiply them by a certain value (depending on what it's in reference), then add them all together. So the battle strategy was to have alternate values A-X be a unique "type", extract the text and then just add them. Problem is, this isn't working with the string parser, so my next idea was to add it to a list box, then edit the text line-by-line looking for keywords and if they're present grab the end of the string.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2igdi2dhqyy

There's a copy of my file so you can see what's going on.

[netninja]

If you have this data loaded into a list:

metal bat: 414
shopping cart: 18
movie rental: 418

You can get the numbers using string parser and using [space] as your delimeter " ".

On each loop you set the current string of the string parser to the current line you are on, and then to get the number you simply use "get last element".

The only problem is, I looked at your mfa file and that data file isn't neatly formatted like that example. Do you need to get all the junk at the top? Or only the weapon data? - It should work fine if you only need the weapon data.

[pirodaggar]

Well two issues, one you can't set it to a line of an edit box (at least to my knowledge), and two the things appear in a random order depending on when purchased, so I can't simply look for every : or something.