How to Count a list of URLs stored in a Variable

[clickfast]

Hi did due diligence combing thru forums and found no referrences to solving this.

I have a variable that contains anywhere from 1 up to 5 URLs separated by ';' (using the SEPARATE command)..

What I want to do is count the number of urls and execute IF/Else statements based on the number of URLs found?

I was thinking about using a Read Line function but I'm so new to this I don't know if that would be barking up the wrong tree...

Ideas?

Thanks!

[Me_again]

The Help is your friend this is the example code. Separate reads the file names into an array called file_names and file_names_count will automagically contain the number of items.

GetFileList>c:\temp\*.*,files
Separate>files,;,file_names
MessageModal>Num Files: %file_names_count%
If>file_names_count=0,end
Let>k=0
Repeat>k
Let>k=k+1
Message>file_names_%k%
Until>k,file_names_count
Label>end

[clickfast]

Ahhhh... thanks! Will check help first next time!

The Help is your friend this is the example code. Separate reads the file names into an array called file_names and file_names_count will automagically contain the number of items.

GetFileList>c:\temp\*.*,files
Separate>files,;,file_names
MessageModal>Num Files: %file_names_count%
If>file_names_count=0,end
Let>k=0
Repeat>k
Let>k=k+1
Message>file_names_%k%
Until>k,file_names_count
Label>end

[clickfast]

Hello Me_Again, so I tried to use this code right out the box. Substituted c:\temp for the correct path of my file. Tried both the GetFileList and ReadFile functions and both will capture contents into variable. The SEPARATE command delimits just fine.

But, the MessageModal line returns a value of 1 and I know that there are 5 items in the list.

Any ideas?

What I'm trying to do is read a text file with anywhere from 1 to 5 URLs and based on the number of URLs, execute a serious of IF statements.

e.g.
IF>URLcount=1
do something
If>URLcount=2
do something else
etc..etc...

The Help is your friend this is the example code. Separate reads the file names into an array called file_names and file_names_count will automagically contain the number of items.

GetFileList>c:\temp\*.*,files
Separate>files,;,file_names
MessageModal>Num Files: %file_names_count%
If>file_names_count=0,end
Let>k=0
Repeat>k
Let>k=k+1
Message>file_names_%k%
Until>k,file_names_count
Label>end

[JRL]

Hi clickfast,

If you are reading the contents of a single file you'll need to modify the example slightly. Instead of using GetFileList>, which reads a directory and creates a list containing the names of all the files located in that directory, try using Readfile> which will read the contents of a particular file.

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ReadFile>C:\Path\URL_List_Filename,;,URL_List
MessageModal>Num URLs: %URL_List_count%
If>file_names_count=0,end
Let>k=0
Repeat>k
Let>k=k+1
Message>URL_List_%k%
Until>k,URL_List_count
Label>end

[clickfast]

Sorry Guys, I just can't get any of these to work. So I'm pasting the source of my test file.

Copy and past the following dummy URLs into a .txt file and name it urls.txt and save it to c:\

http://www.superband.com/testband1/index.php
http://www.superband.com/testband2/index.php
http://www.superband.com/testband3/index.php
http://www.superband.com/testband4/index.php

Then try to use the following script based on recommendations in this thread.

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ReadFile>C:\urls.txt,;,URL_List
MessageModal>Num URLs: %URL_List_count%
If>file_names_count=0,end
Let>k=0
Repeat>k
Let>k=k+1
Message>URL_List_%k%
Until>k,URL_List_count
Label>end

[/quote]


I can't get this to work using the above .txt file and the script above.

Hi clickfast,

If you are reading the contents of a single file you'll need to modify the example slightly. Instead of using GetFileList>, which reads a directory and creates a list containing the names of all the files located in that directory, try using Readfile> which will read the contents of a particular file.

[Bob Hansen]

You seem to have an extra semicolon:

ReadFile>C:\urls.txt,;,URL_List

Syntax is ReadFile>SourceFile,DestinationVariable

[Me_again]

You aren't using GetFileList> which is a special case because it produces a ";" delimited output. With ReadFile>, even with Bob's fix, all you have done is read the whole list of URL's into a variable. To display them separately you'll need to separate them and you can do that with the CRLF that's between the lines of the original file:

ReadFile>C:\urlstest.txt,URL_Text
MDL>URL_Text
Separate>URL_Text,CRLF,URL_List
MDL>%URL_List_count%
Let>k=0
Repeat>k
Let>k=k+1
MDL>URL_List_%k%
Until>k,URL_List_count
Label>end

[clickfast]

The question below is answered in this post http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?t=3922

So now I'd like to perform a few IF statements based on the number of URLs.

Example
IF the URL Counts =1 then do something
If the URL Counts = 2 then do something
If the URL Counts = 3 then do something
etc...

What is the best way to structure this? Also, how do I pass the %URL_List_count% variable to the IF statements?

Thanks!