Read position from text file

Hi Yann00,

 The question is quite confusing, are you refering to getting the content of a text file(.txt) or get information of an existing text in a boardfile?

If you are refering to an existing text on board file, you can use the following codes.

note: make sure that layer of thee text is active.

axlSetFindFilter(?enabled `("noALL" "text") ?onButtons `("noALL" "text")) 

axlSingleSelectPoint(x:y)

textDbid =  car(axlGetSelSet())

variable textDbid contains all anfo of the text. You can noew use different  attributes to extract whatever you need 

Hope this helps 

Hi D912349,

In fact I want to get the content of a text file(.txt).

The  text file(.txt) is like that: X = 40   Y = 60

And I want to get the content (  X = 40   Y = 60) to put that in a variable in my SKILL program.

I need really to get this position to do my SKILL program. This position will be useful in my SKILL function.

Do you understand what I try to mean?

Thank for your help.

Yann 

Try using the fscanf command.

eg:

port = axlDMOpenFile("MISC", "abc.txt", "r")

fscanf(port, "x = %d y = %d\n", x, y)

axlDMClose(port) 

I tried the code of eDave and it works perfect. But i have one question, If I have multiple values of x and y per line at the text file can the same code extrcat all of them?.

for extracting contents of a text file, I use this code

variable txtFile is the input file directory and file name

file=infile(txtFile)

gets(tmpLine file)

It stores one line at a time at variable tmpLine.

the number of times you enter gets(tmpLine file) determines which line in the text file is extracted.

It works nicely.

Thanks a lot