Creating an array from multiple text lines

Creating an array from multiple text lines

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    Jul 20, 2011#1

    I do have a simple text file with multiple lines of text.

    My goal is to have a script which creates an array (in a new file) with those text lines. Every single text line should be a new entry of the array:

    I've tried something, but I was not able to read in the text lines to the array.

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    UltraEdit.newFile();
    
    for (var i=0; i<=NumberOfTextLines; i++)
    {
       UltraEdit.activeDocument.write('\noSeminarDe[' + i + '] = \"' + TextLine[i] + '\";');
    }
    Has somebody an idea idea how this could work?

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    6,603548

      Jul 20, 2011#2

      I can offer 3 solutions. The first one is a macro which I quickly recorded and then modified a little (IfColNum block inserted).

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      InsertMode
      ColumnModeOff
      HexOff
      UltraEditReOn
      Clipboard 9
      SelectAll
      Copy
      NewFile
      Paste
      IfColNum 1
      Key BACKSPACE
      EndIf
      Top
      ColumnModeOn
      ColumnInsert "#"
      Top
      ColumnInsertNum 0 1 LeadingZero 
      ColumnModeOff
      Bottom
      InsertLine
      Top
      Find RegExp "%^([0-9 ]+^)#^(*^)$"
      Replace All "oSeminarDe[^1] = "^2";"
      ClearClipboard
      Clipboard 0
      The LeadingZero parameter is optional. You could remove it if the array index should be with spaces between number and closing square bracket ]. This macro could be also coded as script. It uses column mode editing feature and a tagged regular expression replace.

      A similar macro without tagged regular expression.

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      InsertMode
      ColumnModeOff
      HexOff
      UltraEditReOn
      Clipboard 9
      SelectAll
      Copy
      NewFile
      Paste
      IfColNum 1
      Key BACKSPACE
      EndIf
      Top
      ColumnModeOn
      ColumnInsert "oSeminarDe[] = ""
      Key Ctrl+RIGHT ARROW
      Key RIGHT ARROW
      ColumnInsertNum 0 1 LeadingZero 
      ColumnModeOff
      Bottom
      InsertLine
      Top
      Find RegExp "$"
      Replace All "";"
      ClearClipboard
      Clipboard 0
      The third solution is a script based on what you thought about, but optimized to do as much as possible (= everything) in RAM. No leading zeros or trailing spaces applied for aligning the array index numbers, although that would be also possible with some extra code.

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      UltraEdit.activeDocument.selectAll();
      var sEntireText = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection;
      UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();
      var asLines = sEntireText.split("\r\n");
      if (asLines[asLines.length-1] == "") asLines.pop();
      var sArrays = "";
      for (var nIndex = 0; nIndex < asLines.length; nIndex++) {
         sArrays += "oSeminarDe[" + nIndex.toString() + "] = \"" + asLines[nIndex] + "\";\r\n";
      }
      UltraEdit.newFile();
      UltraEdit.activeDocument.write(sArrays);
      UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();
      The script is written for DOS terminated lines.

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        Jul 21, 2011#3

        Thank you very much Mofi, you're last script does exactly what i want.