Re: Read a text file ...
Re: Read a text file ...
- Subject: Re: Read a text file ...
- From: Charles Heizer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:12:13 -0700
Hi John,
This looks great, thanks a bunch.
I do have a question about the results, how do I map the items from the
text file to my variables?
example...
set theHost to "myfirsthost.example.com"
set theUser to "user"
set thePass to "password"
Thanks again for the help.
- Charles
On Saturday, April 19, 2003, at 10:25 AM, John Delacour wrote:
At 9:32 am -0700 19/4/03, Charles Heizer wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing a small applescript to scp a couple of files to a list of
hosts. I have crated a text file that has the info I need, it looks
like this -
myfirsthost.example.com;user;password
host2.example.com;user;password
So the file is delimited by semicolons. So I've been reading the
archives and I can't seem to figure out how to fill in the variables
in my script with the contents of each line.
You probably want something like this:
writeFile() -- make the sample file see (**) below
set fU to "/tmp/host.txt" -- UNIX pathname of file
set f to POSIX file fU -- file specification
set sStuff to {} -- in this case a list of lists
set sSeparator to ";"
set text item delimiters to sSeparator
open for access f
repeat
try
set lLine to read f until return
if lLine contains sSeparator then
set end of sStuff to text items of lLine
end if
on error
exit repeat
end try
end repeat
close access f
set text item delimiters to ""
sStuff
(**)
on writeFile()
set fU to "/tmp/host.txt"
set f to POSIX file fU
set s to "
myfirsthost.example.com;user;password
host2.example.com;user;password
"
open for access f with write permission
set eof f to 0
write s to f
close access f
end writeFile
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