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New Contributor

8 years ago

Reading a text file and passing to a Function

Hi All, Hopefully a quick question, Im trying to read a number from a text file and pass it to a function. The "ScanItem" function i am trying to pass the textfile data to already works f...

shankar_r

8 years ago

Hi,

If that is the case, you can do like below

function test()
{
         ScanItem(getTextFromFile(<filepath>))
}

function getTextFromFile(filepath)
{
	if(filepath != null)
	{
		try
		{
			return aqFile.ReadWholeTextFile(filepath,20);
		}
		catch(e)
		{
			Log.Error(ex.stack);
		}
	}
	return null;
}

Ref: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/aqfile/readwholetextfile.html

shankar_r

Community Hero

Hi,

NB1024 wrote

Im trying to read a number from a text file and pass it to a function.

Only number will get displayed in your text file or how it will look like?
Are you going to use whole text of a file as parameter?
If not, How you know what value to take?

NB1024

New Contributor

8 years ago

Thanks Shankar.

Please see clarification below:

Only number will get displayed in your text file or how it will look like?
- in the text file c:\temp\voucher1.txt when opened in e.g.notepad.exe would show just a 13 digit number e.g.
- 1234567890123
Are you going to use whole text of a file as parameter?
- correct I would like to read in the 1234567890123 and pass the 13 digit number into scanitem function.
If not, How you know what value to take?
- see above.

Currently as per original post the ScanItem which works in scripts has this in the script

e.g.

ScanItem ("1112223334445")

however I would like to pass in the voucher1.txt files content of e.g. 1234567890123 as the script will need to handle dynamic content.

Regards

shankar_r
Community Hero
8 years ago
Hi,

If that is the case, you can do like below

function test() { ScanItem(getTextFromFile(<filepath>)) } function getTextFromFile(filepath) { if(filepath != null) { try { return aqFile.ReadWholeTextFile(filepath,20); } catch(e) { Log.Error(ex.stack); } } return null; }

Ref: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/aqfile/readwholetextfile.html
- NB1024
  New Contributor
  8 years ago
  Thanks Shankar!
  This helped alot, especially the reference link too!
  Kind Regards
  N

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